double-banked

adj

adj

Having two rowers at each oar, or two tiers of oars one above the other, as in ancient galleys.

It is often the case that when a boat is stove, its crew, being picked up by another boat, help to work that second boat; and the chase is thus continued with what is called double-banked oars.1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

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