To double upon(Mil.), to inclose between two fires.

Double
(Dou"ble), n.

1. Twice as much; twice the number, sum, quantity, length, value, and the like.

If the thief be found, let him pay double.
Ex. xxii. 7.

2. Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.); among pressmen, a sheet that is twice pulled, and blurred.

3. That which is doubled over or together; a doubling; a plait; a fold.

Rolled up in sevenfold double
Of plagues.
Marston.

4. A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice.

These men are too well acquainted with the chase to be flung off by any false steps or doubles.
Addison.

5. Something precisely equal or counterpart to another; a counterpart. Hence, a wraith.

My charming friend . . . has, I am almost sure, a double, who preaches his afternoon sermons for him.
Atlantic Monthly.

6. A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.

7. Double beer; strong beer.

8. (Eccl.) A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts. Shipley.

9. (Lawn Tennis) A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.

10. (Mus.) An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites.

Double-acting
(Dou"ble-act`ing) a. Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.

Double-bank
(Dou"ble-bank") v. t. (Naut.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.

To double-bank an oar, to set two men to pulling one oar.

Double-banked
(Dou"ble-banked`) a. Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.

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.
Dryden.

Doubling and doubling with laborious walk.
Wordsworth.

3. To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.

What penalty and danger you accrue,
If you be found to double.
J. Webster.

4. (Print.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet.


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