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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



... recollections, or the predatory propensities which their state of society might foster. Nor is it fair, in estimating the danger of collisions with the whites, to charge it wholly on the side of the black. There would be reciprocal antipathies doubling the danger. ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various
... gazing, gazing still On beds of moss that spread the window sill, I deem'd no moss my eyes had ever seen Had been so lovely, brilliant, fresh, and green, And guess'd some infant hand had placed it there, And prized its hue, so exquisite, so rare. Feelings on feelings mingling, doubling rose, My heart felt every thing but calm repose; I could not reckon minutes, hours, nor years, But rose at once, and bursted into tears; Then, like a fool, confused, sat down again, And thought upon the past with shame and pain; ...
— May Day With The Muses • Robert Bloomfield
... for some offence, Dante, who disliked the man for riding in an overbearing manner along the streets (stretching out his legs as wide as he could, and hindering people from going by), did intercede with the magistrate, but it was in behalf of doubling the fine in consideration of the horsemanship. The neighbour, who was a man of family, was so exasperated, that Sacchetti the novelist says it was the principal cause of Dante's expatriation. This will be considered the less improbable, if, as some suppose, the delinquent ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt
... and sliding, And falling and brawling and sprawling, And driving and riving and striving, And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling, And sounding and bounding and rounding, And bubbling and troubling and doubling, And grumbling and rumbling and tumbling, And clattering and battering and shattering, Retreating and beating and meeting and sheeting, Delaying and straying and playing and spraying, Advancing ...
— The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1875 • Various
... cub: and with determined trudge she came wagging her low head, having no doubt smelled the dogs. We separated on the instant, doubling different ways behind ice-boulders, wanting her to go on nearer the shore, before killing; but, passing close, she spied, and bore down at a trot upon me. I fired into her neck, and at once, with a roar, she turned tail, making now straight in Maitland's direction. I saw him run out from cover ...
— The Purple Cloud • M.P. Shiel


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