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Definition of Trebled
1. treble [v] - See also: treble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trebled
Literary usage of Trebled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1908)
"If the linear dimensions are increased in any ratio, say trebled, the volume,
weight, strength, and power to operate must be increased in the cube of this ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"If, under the provision of the patent law, the damages are to be trebled, it will
not amount to a вит authorizing the writ of error. ..."
3. The Conquest of the Great Northwest: Being the Story of the Adventurers of by Agnes Christina Laut (1908)
"ON TWICE-trebled CAPITAL—COMING OF SPIES AGAIN FROM the time of the first voyage
up to Churchill River, in 1686, the fur traders had noticed tribes of ..."
4. Lessons of the World-war by Augustin Frédéric Hamon (1919)
"CHAPTER XII AFTER THE WAR: ECONOMIC PROBLEMS Economic conditions—State indebtedness
will be doubled or trebled— The results of war loans in place of ..."
5. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"raised; it would be impossible for the demand to be trebled while the supply and
the price were unchanged. At any rate, if this could happen, ..."
6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"Common powder soaked at the moment of using iu nitro-glycerine has been used in
Swedish quarries, with trebled effectiveness ..."
7. The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1852)
"The receipts of corn and flour at New- Orleans alone, in the year 1845-6, trebled
in the one instance, and doubled in the other, those of any previous year, ..."
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