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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



... and fled incontinently with the aroused steer in angry pursuit. The best way out was the most puzzling to the vengeful steer, so the bummer cavorted recklessly through the herd, turning and twisting and doubling, stepping on any steer that happened to be lying down in his path, butting others, and leavening things with great success. Under other conditions he would have relished the effect of his efforts, ...
— Bar-20 Days • Clarence E. Mulford
... blinded by the eager thirst of a little gold, divert themselves with the uneasiness of the government, and the more they see it in the trances of apprehension, the more they delight in magnifying the danger, and doubling ...
— Paris As It Was and As It Is • Francis W. Blagdon
... Bullard and had established on my own acre, until I saw the college gardens of Oxford, England, and the landscape work in Hyde Park, London. On my return thence I made haste to give my own garden's in-and-out curves twice the boldness they had had. And doubling their boldness I doubled their beauty. "Don't" ever let your acre's, or half or quarter acre's, ground lines relax into feebleness or shrink into pettiness. "Don't" ever plan a layout for whose free swing your ...
— The Amateur Garden • George W. Cable
... to be water'd, that is, they crease it just through the middle of it, the whole length of the piece, leaving the right side of the Stuff inward, and placing the two edges, or silvages just upon one another, and, as near as they can, place the wale so in the doubling of it, that the wale of the one side may lie very near parallel, or even with the wale of the other; for the nearer that posture they lie, the greater will the watering appear; and the more obliquely, ...
— Micrographia • Robert Hooke
... now toward a million, and widely scattered over a great area—he did not feel that they would be profitable—certainly not for some years to come. What traffic they gained would be taken from the surface lines, and if he built them he would be merely doubling his expenses to halve his profits. From time to time he had contemplated the possibility of their being built by other men—providing they could secure a franchise, which previous to the late election had not seemed probable—and in this connection he had ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser


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