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duplex

• 1 n. a building consisting of two dwellings under one roof, either side by side or one below the other.

  See also: fiveplex  fourplex  triplex  

  • 1958  Permits for three duplexes, $38,000.
  • 1963  Mr. Sullivan . . . yelled down to . . . [the] owner of the two-storey frame duplex...

• 2 n. one of the dwellings of such a building.

  • 1959  Emile Groulx, 68, living in the upstairs duplex, also smelled smoke. . .

• 3 n. Lumbering See 1942 quote.

  • 1942  A yarder may be a single-purpose donkey or it may be a "duplex " machine, having loading drums as well as mainline and haulback drums fed their steam from the same boiler.
  • 1960  Most old-time loggers will remember Bloedel, Stewart and Welch's big logging camp . . . near Powell River. This camp started operations also in 1911 and the superintendent's name was Reilly, who . . . invented the steam duplex system of loading and used railways to a larger extent than ever before used in the woods.
  • 1963  There's where you hear the duplex shrill / As it roars, screams and whines. . . .