Doubling

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Double.

II. Doubling ·noun The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.

III. Doubling ·noun The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor.

IV. Doubling ·noun A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice.

V. Doubling ·noun The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled.

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