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Definition of Doublings
1. doubling [n] - See also: doubling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doublings
Literary usage of Doublings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or, The Country Gentleman's Companion, in All ...Sports (1735)
"... and doublings, holding them long together, to make the hounds give over the
chace. But if a hart break out into a champain country, and in the heat of ..."
2. A Military Dictionary: Or, Explaination of the Several Systems of Discipline by William Duane (1810)
"... and all doublings therefore must come from the head only ; and the proper
closeness of the march on all occasions, is a point of the highest consequence ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"... synchronism of events in the two ventricles, or (2) to- the formation of
entirely new sounds. i. Splittings and doublings of the Heart Sounds (| Rhythm) ..."
4. The Mechanical Principia: Containing All the Various Calculations on Water by Charles Elbredge Leonard (1848)
"The following table shows the range of drafts and doublings, which are preferred
by different manufacturers. EXAMPLE. ..."
5. Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock (1840)
"... upon which all depends. doublings, and unsatisfied desires of knowledge and
perfection. But being all souls are not alike, it is certain they depend ..."
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