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Doubling   /dˈəbəlɪŋ/  /dˈəblɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Doubling  n.  
1.
The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled.
2.
A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice.
3.
(Her.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.
4.
The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor.
5.
Raising the stakes in a game, such as a card game or backgammon, by a factor of 2.
Synonyms: double.
Doubling a cape, Doubling a promontory, etc. (Naut.), sailing around or passing beyond a cape, promontory, etc.


verb
Double  v. t.  (past & past part. doubled; pres. part. doubling)  
1.
To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; as, to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length. "Double six thousand, and then treble that."
2.
To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth. "Then the old man Was wroth, and doubled up his hands."
3.
To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as. "Thus reenforced, against the adverse fleet, Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way."
4.
To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion. "Sailing along the coast, the doubled the promontory of Carthage."
5.
(Mil.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.


Double  v. i.  
1.
To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value; to increase or grow to twice as much. "'T is observed in particular nations, that within the space of three hundred years, notwithstanding all casualties, the number of men doubles."
2.
To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction. "Doubling and turning like a hunted hare." "Doubling and doubling with laborious walk."
3.
To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false. "What penalty and danger you accrue, If you be found to double."
4.
(Print.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.
To double upon (Mil.), to inclose between two fires.





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"Doubling" Quotes from Famous Books



... Settlements, which had been before like an overturned hive, pretty quiet, the ringleaders of your precious plot having all been strung up, and the rest made as mild as sheep with branding and whipping and doubling of times. So, the tobacco being in and the plantation quiet, things were left to Haines, and I came along with the Colonel. Major Carrington, too, who they say is in the Governor's black books, though Lord ...
— Prisoners of Hope - A Tale of Colonial Virginia • Mary Johnston
... displeased, but said nothing. Tant Sannie would have thrown the saucer at her and sworn for an hour; but the feeling would be the same irritated displeasure. If a huge animated stomach like Bonaparte were put under a glass by a skilful mental microscopist, even he would be found to have an embryonic doubling somewhere indicative of a heart, and rudimentary buddings that might have become conscience and sincerity. Let me take your ...
— The Story of an African Farm • (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner
... as to be nearly square—a collar also formed with skins was sometimes attached to the mantle, and reached along its whole breadth—it was formed without sleeves or buttons, and was worn thrown over the shoulders, the corners doubling over at the breast and arms. When the bow is to be used the upper part of the dress was thrown off from the shoulders and arms, and a broad fold, the whole extent of it, was secured round the loins, with a belt to keep the lower part from the ground and the whole from ...
— Lecture On The Aborigines Of Newfoundland • Joseph Noad
... trail; and, though the vegetation was so dense that no one could have run more than a few yards, most of them went along quite carelessly, picking and eating a fruit of the melon family called Mponko. When the animal heard them approach he always fled, shifting his stand and doubling on his course in the most cunning manner. In other cases I have known them to turn back to a point a few yards from their own trail, and then lie down in a hollow waiting for the hunter to come up. Though a heavy, lumbering-looking animal, his charge is then rapid and terrific. More accidents happen ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone
... distance. A stout stake should be driven at each corner of the beds, and from these the distances for the rows should be measured. There are various ways of transplanting. Some stretch a line, and cut out a trench only deep enough to allow the roots to be laid out without doubling; and they are spread out like a fan perpendicularly against the side of the cut, the crown of the plant being kept two inches below the surface of the ground. Some dig out a trench, and form little hillocks of fine soil, over which the roots are spread, extending like the sticks ...
— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr


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