1931 N.Y. Times 15 Sept. 22/2 Only two men..held tickets on the double, which is governed somewhat along the lines of a parley bet.

1951 E. Rickman Come Racing with Me xviii. 182 Doubles, trebles and accumulators are popular among those backers who are particularly attracted by the possibility of winning a substantial sum for a small outlay.

1967 Atlantic Oct. 78 I hustled to the track, bet my ‘doubles’, and prepared to take my place in the sun.

1983 Sporting Life 8 Mar. 1/4 David Nicholson and Peter Scudamore..brought off a 285-1 double on a day of shocks and spills at Windsor.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 57 Vh fridei..haldeð silence. bute hit beo duble feste.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 4398 He hath ordeined of his sleyhte Mesure double and double weyhte.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 660 O duble ded þan sal ȝee dei.

a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 898 With dowble wordes sleye, Swich as men clepe a word with two visages.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxii Fye on doble entendement, and cloked adulacion.

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 10 This Arsenicum is double, one ashie colour, and the other..like Golde.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 8 The word μηλον, admitting a double construction, sheep and apple.

1751 J. Jortin Serm. (1771) V. ii. 43 A double incitement to goodness.

1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow III. xvii. 256 He..is a double traitor.

1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. iv. 143 The Earth..has a double movement, turning round its own axis while it travels round the Sun.

c1300 Pilate (Harl.) l. 21 in F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 111 He þoȝte if he hit slowe, þat hit were doble wo.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope xvii. f. cxv The second shal haue the dowble parte, or as moche more ageyne.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 5 Yan suld storys yat suthfast wer..Hawe doubill plesance in heryng.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. liiij The kynges nomber was doble as muche & more.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxxvj^v He..should haue..doble wages.

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings ii. 9 Let a double portion of thy spirit be vpon me. View more context for this quotation

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. Concl. 452 Lett the excesse..be but..double ouer his, that cometh next vnto him.

1648 O. Cromwell Lett. 20 Nov. Their fault who have appeared in this summer's business is certainly double to theirs who were in the first.

1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 5 We had now above double the number of Officers usual in Privateers.

1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 38 Offering about double pay to what the ‘Annual’ gives.

1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 147 The average error of the first..is double of that of the second.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 592 His army..might easily have been increased to double the number.

a1450 (c1375) G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite (Tanner 346) (1878) l. 87 He was double in loue and nothynge pleyn.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xi. §2. 43 In dubbil hert: when a fals man thynkis an and says a nother.

a1500 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Adv.) in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Visions of Tundale (1843) 121 With dowbull tongis and detraccion.

?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. aa.v^v They..are..euermore fals and double.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vii. 237 God is the Iudge..He sounds the deepest of the doublest hart.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 312 He was..either very double, or very inconstant.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xxix. 213 To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double.

1888 R. L. Stevenson in Scribner's Mag. Jan. 123/2 He began..to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life.

1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto (1893) viii. 83 Esther led a double life, just as she spoke two tongues.

1907 Times 19 Dec. 9/4 The woman must have been murdered by a man who was leading a double life... The prisoner had been leading a double life.

1924 E. Wallace Sinister Man xxxv She had never imagined that this gawk of a girl..could lead what was tantamount to a double life.

1953 L. P. Hartley Go-between xi. 134 Since Marcus's return I had become vaguely aware that I was leading a double life.

c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) lxxviii. 13 Ȝelde to our neȝburs seven double in her bosme her lackinge.

?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 113 He wolde yelde it ayenne an hundred double.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke viii. f. 89 It..brought fruicte an hundred-fold double.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 99 Cover them..with a kind of Felt..two or three double.

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 158 If you should deale double [1597 doubly] with her. View more context for this quotation

1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy iv. 291 Thought played him double.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. iii. sig. Kk4 I thought to play double or quit.

1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. iv. 406 Alexandra..resolued to play at double or quit, breake the guiues of specious seruitude, or yield her necke to Herod's sword.

1798 Geraldina III. 205 He then offered to play double or quits.

1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. vii. 202 ‘I dare you to another trial—double or quit.’

1894 Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough II. lxxviii. 316 He was no gambler at the game of life, and whether winning or losing he never wagered double or quits.

1905 A. Bennett Tales of Five Towns ii. 246 He wants me to tour with him..and do a double act.

1952 W. Granville Dict. Theatr. Terms 64 Double-act, two vaudeville artistes, cross-talk comedians, or singers, e.g. the famous Layton and Johnson team of the 1920's.

1959 Times 29 May 4/2 When their double act was done, having produced 87 runs..it suited Kenyon..that he soon had Gloucestershire in again.

1935 R. P. Blackmur (title) The double agent.

1941 A. Koestler Scum of Earth 79 The sensational trial..had revealed an amazing scene of plots, intrigues, spies, and double-agents.

1960 News Chron. 19 Feb. 3/4 A young Dutchman..said he was a double agent. He had joined the Germans only to get to Britain and there serve his country.

1947 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 22 Jan. 7/3 Simply purchase a double album, No. DA11 for $3.94, and hear the pleasant blendings of organ, guitar, and accordion any time of the day that you please.

1971 J. Lennon in J. Wenner Lennon Remembers (1972) 138 I don't care about the whole concept of Pepper, it might be better, but the music was better for me on the double album.

2002 Borneo Post 18 Nov. 17/4 ‘These are my last two records,’..[she] said of her forthcoming double album ‘Travelogue’.

2022 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 6 Mar. A new trend has emerged: the two-stage album drop. Not to be confused with the double album—ie too many songs all at once.

1849 A. De Morgan Trigonometry & Double Algebra v. 117 All the symbols which in single algebra denote numbers or magnitudes, in double algebra denote lines, and not merely the lengths of lines, but their directions.

1865 J. Grote Treat. Moral Ideals (1876) 267 Conscientiousness..has a double aspect, outwards and inwards.

1870 S. H. Hodgson Theory of Pract. I. i. 3 It was maintained that..the whole world of phenomena..had a double aspect, subjective and objective, was at once a mode of consciousness and an existing thing.

1879 W. James in Mind 4 330 The ‘double-aspect’ school postulate the blank form of ‘One and the Same Fact’.

1960 Discovery Oct. 62/2 The much discussed ‘double-aspect’ hypothesis of mind and brain.

1909 A. J. North Nests & Eggs of Birds Austral. II. 279 Stictoptera bichenovii... This Finch, the ‘double-bar’ of Sydney bird dealers, is another instance of a species being found in coastal as well as the inland districts of Queensland.

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Sept. 39/1 The grove of lemon-trees where, year after year, the double-bars had nested.

1959 J. Wright Generations of Men 212 The garden where her pretty diamond-sparrows and double-bars and finches nested.

1956 G. Bateson et al. in Behavioral Sci. 1 253/2 He [sc. a schizophrenic] has special difficulty in handling signals of that class whose members assign Logical Types to other signals... The hypothesis which we offer is that sequences of this kind in the external experience of the patient are responsible for the inner conflicts of Logical Typing. For such unresolvable sequences of experiences, we use the term ‘double bind’.

1962 Listener 6 Dec. 949/2 Serious troubles can arise when..a mother's normal life becomes subject to promptings from her unconscious... The child of such a parent finds himself repeatedly caught in a ‘double bind’, that is in a situation in which he is given simultaneous but mutually contradictory cues, so that whatever he does will be wrong.

1960 Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 3 359/2 The emotional importance of the double-binder to his ‘victim’.

1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. ii. 240 One of them is a double blank.

1868 G. A. Sala Notes & Sketches Paris Exhib. iv. 34 The houses..gave to the outskirts of Paris an odd affinity to a city built of dominoes set on end. The double-sixes and double-fours, with here and there a double-blank in the shape of a dead-wall.

1927 P. G. Wodehouse Small Bachelor i. 20 It has been well said of Sigsbee H. Waddington that, if men were dominoes, he would be the double-blank.

1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast iii. 64 His device was apparently the Double Bluff. That is to say, when he had two courses open to him, A and B, he pretended he was going to take B, and so got us guessing that he would try A. Then he took B after all.

1879 A. D. Whitney Just How 260 Cut up and boil and mash..in a bain-marie, or double boiler.

1950 T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party i. i. 37 I suppose there must be a double boiler: Isn't there one in every kitchen?

1889 G. M'Gowan tr. A. Bernthsen Text-bk. Org. Chem. i. 49 The assumption that the affinity which becomes free at each of two carbon atoms, upon abstraction of the hydrogen, is employed in creating a ‘double bond’ between them.

1889 G. M'Gowan tr. A. Bernthsen Text-bk. Org. Chem. i. 50 By this term ‘double bond’ is not, however, to be understood a closer or more intimate combination. The olefines, on the contrary, are more readily oxidized than the paraffins, being thereby attacked at the point of the double bond.

1903 A. J. Walker & O. E. Mott tr. A. F. Holleman Text-bk. Org. Chem. I. §129. 150 The double bond must not be regarded as a mere doubling of the single one.

1944 Hackh's Chem. Dict. (ed. 3) 286/2 Double bond, a condition which exists in unsaturated compounds where two single valence bonds connect two atoms.

1964 N. G. Clark Mod. Org. Chem. ii. 14 The pair of valency bonds linking adjacent carbon atoms together..is referred to as an ethylenic or olefinic bond. When this type of linkage occurs between other atoms, it is simply termed a double bond.

1795 C. Pettigrew Let. 19 Sept. in Pettigrew Papers (MS, Univ. N. Carolina) I think it will be best to send the Double Chair.

1833 Maryland Hist. Mag. (1918) 13 338 Dr. Smith..and Drs negro boy left Salisbury with two easy riding horses and a double chair.

1904 P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furnit. I. ix. 220 Double chairs or love-seats.

1934 Burlington Mag. Oct. 163/1 An oak chair dated 1672..of unusual width, but hardly wide enough to be described as a double chair.

1962 Skiing Nov. 27 To her, John Jay is most likely a historical figure, moguls are business tycoons.., a doublechair is a love-seat, and the ‘milk run’ is the drive to the local delicatessen for groceries.

1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 91 Make a Change..The single, by changing two Notes..the double by changing Four..which is however called One double Change, and not two changes.

1872 H. T. Ellacombe Church Bells Devon iii. 39 About the year 1657, double changes came into practice.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter ii, in Poems (new ed.) 102 I see the wealthy miller yet, His double chin–his portly size.

1958 H. M. Hayward & M. Harari tr. B. Pasternak Dr. Zhivago i. vi. 183 Her astrakhan cape hung open over the..quaking layers of her double chin.

1803 J. Plymley Gen. View Agric. Shropshire 54 Coal, called the double~coal.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 962 A section of the Quarrelton coal..showing the overlapped coal and the double coal.

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Double-coal, a good coal for manufacturing purposes, much used.

1920 W. Gibson Coal in Great Brit. 207 The Seven Feet Coal..is the chief coal, but below it the Double and Bench coals are workable.

1775 J. Parish tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Voy. Island Mauritius 127 At the isle of Sechelie, there is just discovered a tree bearing double cocoa-nuts [Fr. des cocos doubles], some of which weigh upwards of forty pounds.

1827 W. J. Hooker in Curtis's Bot. Mag. 54 2734 Of all the palms perhaps that which for a long time has been the least perfectly known, and yet the most extensively celebrated, is..the Double Cocoa-nut.

1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 393 Large hollow double or triple nuts, of the same character as the Cocoa nut..the ‘Double Cocoa-nuts’ of the Seychelle Islands.

c1880 Cassell's Pop. Educator (rev. ed.) III. 399/1 The origin of these double or sea coco-nuts, as they have been called, long remained enveloped in a cloud of dense mystery.

1914 R. Belfort & A. J. Hoyer All about Coconuts ii. 21 In addition to these must be mentioned the double coconut, or coco-de-mer,..the fruit of the Lodoicea Seychellarum.

1974 Kew Bull. 29 756 Loving care is given to the Double Coconut, Lodoicea maldivica, from the Seychelles, germinating in a large tub in the tropical house.

2006 J. Cummings et al. Sri Lanka 188 Don't miss the avenue of double coconut palms.

1894 Times 6 Mar. 4/3 The time of the piece is double common time, but here and there a bar of three semibreves is put in.

1842 J. F. Warner Dict. Mus. Terms 26/1 We distinguish a concerto or concert for one instrument alone from a double concerto, i.e. a concerto for two instruments together, (concerto doppio,) or indeed for several instruments together.

1958 Listener 30 Oct. 706/3 The double Concerto in D minor.

1816 in National Reg. (Washington, D.C.) 9 Mar. 19/1 (heading) A double consciousness, or a duality of person in the same individual.

1869 J. G. Whittier Among the Hills & Other Poems 36 Through her his civic service shows A purer-toned ambition; No double consciousness divides The man and politician.

1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Double consciousness, a condition which has been described as a double personality, showing in some measure two separate and independent trains of thought and two independent mental capabilities in the same individual.

2002 S. Home 69 Things to do with Dead Princess iii. 35 While double consciousness doesn't protect you from the code, it certainly gives you different perspectives from which to reflect upon it.

1871 B. H. Kennedy Public School Lat. Gram. §9 Double Consonants, x, z.

1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 303 We have double cream put in to sauces and soups.

1888 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) xxxii. 898 For whipping and making sweets it is usual to ask for double cream, that is thick cream that has stood on the milk for twenty-four hours instead of twelve.

1936 D. Lucas & R. Hume Au Petit Cordon Bleu 161 1 gill double cream.

1959 Listener 2 July 39/2 Whip the double cream until fairly stiff.

1934 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 31 Mar. 598 Double-Crostics, Number 1... This is the first of a series of ingenious literary puzzles invented by Elizabeth S. Kingsley for The Saturday Review.

1946 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 3 Dec. 25/1 The Saturday Review Associates, Inc., New York... Double-Crostic.

1967 Sci. Amer. Sept. 275/2 The Double-Crostic, in which the words of a literary quotation and the name of the author and his work are derived from words clued by cryptic definitions.

1976 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 24 Feb. tm219 Janet Elliott Cameron, San Francisco, Calif... Double-Crostics.

1984 T. Augarde Oxf. Guide Word Games vi. 62 Yet another type of crossword is the double-crostic, invented, by an American, Elizabeth Kingsley.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 22 Dec. 9/1 Billposting..at One Penny per Double-crown Sheet per Week.

1780 A. Young Tour Ireland i. 265 He has built, besides other rooms..a drawing one.., a double cube of 25 feet, being 50 long, 25 broad, and 25 high.

1930 H. Nicolson Diary 5 July (1966) I. 51 Down to Wilton with Vita... Go with Pembroke to the Palladian bridge and look back on the house all lit up with the Van Dykes showing in the Double Cube (Room).

1969 Guardian 19 June 13/8 I thought..about Inigo Jones's superb double-cube room.

1969 P. Dickinson Pride of Heroes 38 Beyond the hall..was the Chinese Withdrawing-room, a double cube.

1931 Amer. Speech 6 204 Double date.

1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer ix. 140 The ultimate triumph..was more often accomplished on double dates than otherwise.

1955 M. Millar Beast in View xiv. 171 She had met Evelyn..on a double date with one of John's fraternity brothers.

1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. vi. 56 The decompositions here effected may serve as the type of a very large number of chemical changes classed as double decompositions.

1903 H. C. Jones Princ. Inorg. Chem. xxvii. 323 Sulphates can also be formed by double decomposition or metathesis.

1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. x. 668 Krogh concludes that basaltic rocks in general take up CO₂, calcium carbonate and silicic acid being formed by double decomposition.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Double-Dot, or Dotted-Dot, the Double-Dot consists of two points, one following the other.

1959 Collins Mus. Encycl. 201/1 The double dot, first suggested by Leopold Mozart in 1756.., indicates a prolongation of the normal length by three-quarters.

1789 J. Wolcot Subj. for Painters in Wks. (1812) II. 154 I scarcely know The Oboe from the Double Drum.

1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1248 A band..consisted of a double drum, a Dutch organ, the tambourine.

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 757/1 The large drum, beaten at both ends, is called a double-drum. Those hanging by the side of the drummer are called side-drums.

1927 Austral. Encycl. I. 269/2 In the Sydney district..the Double Drummer (Cyclochila australasiae).

1952 Chambers's Shorter Eng. Dict. Suppl. Double drummer, a large brown and orange cicada, remarkable for the large, swollen drums or covers to its sound-producing organs.

1721 W. Webster Ess. Bk.-keeping (ed. 2) 1 Book-keeping is the Art of stating our Accompts,..to which end, the Italian manner of Debtor and Creditor, by double entry, is by experience, found most conducive.

1741 J. Mair Book-keeping Methodiz'd (ed. 2) 14 Italian Book-keeping is said to be a Method of Keeping Accompts by double Entry because, etc.

1883 A. Cariss Book-keeping 3 Book-keeping by Double Entry..was devised centuries ago, and has since become..generally adopted.

1961 S. Chaplin Day of Sardine i. 22 But if my writing's bad my double entry memory is good. It all goes down and sooner or later comes shooting out.

1892 W. E. Woodbury Encycl. Photogr. 223 Double exposure, an error often made by amateurs in unconsciously exposing the same plate on two occasions.

1911 D. S. Hulfish Cycl. Motion-pict. Work II. ii. 91 The making of ghosts by double exposures.

1912 F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures xx. 225 The fairy..having been photographed only during the second exposure, appears at first very indistinctly. The result of the double exposure is shown in the illustration; and the gradual appearance of the fairy may be followed very easily.

1939 Amer. Speech 14 271 The good pun makes a double exposure on the mind.

1958 Newnes Compl. Amateur Photogr. iv. 54 It is common nowadays for even simple cameras to have a shutter-film wind interlock which prevents blank negatives or double exposures.

1958 Observer 16 Feb. 13/6 The treatment [of a film] seems a bit outmoded (all those soulful close-ups and double exposures).

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Double fault.

1921 A. W. Myers Twenty Years Lawn Tennis 128 A universal ‘Oh!’ echoed round the arena when Wilding served a double fault.

1921 A. W. Myers Twenty Years Lawn Tennis 156 He served half a dozen double faults and two foot-faults.

1955 Times 2 July 2/7 A sad double fault gave Trabert all the assurance that he might have needed.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 57 Vh fridei..haldeð silence. bute hit beo duble feste.

1440 in A. H. Thompson Visitations Relig. Houses Diocese Lincoln (1927) III. 350 Euery principale double fest.

1486 ( in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 13 Euery Sonday & euery double feest, pry[n]cipall feest, & solempne feest.

1534 tr. Lyndewode's Constit. Angliæ 25 b The feast of saint George the martyr shal be kept doble, after the maner of the more doble feaste.

1614 H. Spelman Orig. Four Terms in Eng. Wks. (1727) ii. 92 The Feast..of St. Peter and Paul on the 29^th of June was a double Feast.

1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. xvi. 375 Saint Nicholas was the patron of scholars. Hence at Eton college saint Nicholas has a double feast.

1980 New Grove Dict. Music XIII. 259/2 Before the 1971 simplification of the Roman Breviary, the night office of Matins (or Vigils) was composed of three nocturns for double or semi-double feasts, and one nocturn for simple feasts or ferias.

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Double feature.

1945 T. Williams Glass Menagerie (1948) i. i. 28 Tom: I'm going to the movies... There's a wonderful double feature down at Loewe's State.

1909 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity (new ed.) xv. 270 The seed of maize is formed by a double fertilisation. It consists of two parts, an embryo, and an endosperm... The embryo is formed by the union of one nucleus of the egg~cell with one from the pollen-tube, and the endosperm is similarly formed by the union of the united polar nuclei with another from the pollen-tube.

1916 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms (ed. 3) 118/2 Double fertilization, in angiosperms, when one male cell from the pollen-tube fuses with the egg nucleus, the other with the upper polar nucleus, and this last with the lower polar nucleus.

1959 A. S. Foster & E. M. Gifford Compar. Morphol. Vascular Plants xix. 515 The participation of each of the two male gametes in a fusion process is uniquely characteristic of angiosperms, and is usually designated by the expression ‘double fertilization’.

1860 J. E. Eardley-Wilmot Reminisc. T. A. Smith App. 251 Nor was Lord F. Beauclerk fortunate enough to mark a double figure in either innings.

1875 Cliftonian 4 93 No one scored double figures.

1884 Boy's Own Paper Summer No. 26 Watch the ball, keep your temper, and don't be afraid; For that is the way double figures are made.

1894 Times 25 May 11/3 Mr. Mitchell for once in a way failed to reach double figures.

1861 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xlvii A son from college with all the fresh honours of a double first.

1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice xxx. 158 I shall come out a double-first.

1933 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 7 Oct. 15/7 A sheep that is missed at one shearing and comes in the next has a double fleece. He is called a double-fleecer.

1904 N.Z. Illustr. Mag. 10 48/1 Sheep annually evaded the shearing muster and remained among the scrub..to develop into ‘double-fleecers’.

1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xxiii. 224 We lived on..the fat wild sheep and double-fleecers.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 541 A double floor consists in its thickness of three tiers of timbers, which are called binding joists (these perform the office of girders), bridging joists, and ceiling joists.

1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 171/1 Double frame, a composing frame usually made of deal and holding two pairs of cases at the same time.

1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation 338 Double frame, one animation drawing photographed for two frames instead of one.

1943 Fortune Mar. 182 Double-glazing is quite a good insulator.

1957 Housewife Sept. 23/2 The north and south walls consist almost entirely of Plyglass double~glazing.

1958 Chambers's Techn. Dict. (ed. 3) 974/2 Double-glazing, glazing with two panes separated by spacers and a layer of dehydrated air which prevents misting.

1960 House & Garden May 69/2 Double-glazing prevents heat loss.

1971 D. Devine Dead Trouble vii. 65 He added a sun lounge and installed central heating and double glazing.

eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxxv. 245 Ðonne ðæt ierre ðæs ytemestan domes..arafað ðæt cliwen ðære twifaldan heortan.]

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) (1850) 1 Chron. xii. 33 Fyfty thousand camen in to help, not in double hert.

c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Order of Fools (Laud) in Minor Poems (1934) 450 A double herte, fair ffeyned contenaunce, A pretens face, treble in his dalyaunce.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xi. 2 Thai ere swikil lippes..for thai speke in hert & thurgh hert that is in dubbil hert.

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. To Rdr. sig. a6^v Men of two harts, or of a double heart.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 261 He lent it [sc. his heart] me awhile, and I gaue him vse for it, a double heart . View more context for this quotation

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Chron. xii. 33 They were not of double heart [Heb. without a heart and a heart] . View more context for this quotation

1778 J. Matlock Apostasy 147 To dissemble with the truth, and having a double heart, this leads men into that soul-damning sin the sin of hypocrisy.

1861 R. M. Ballantyne Dog Crusoe & his Master xix. 254 I have often told you so when you would not listen, and when you told me that I had a double heart, and told lies. You were wrong when you said this.

1896 New Ireland Rev. Feb. 365 Aodh feigned good will and good cheer. For sooth it was he who had a double heart, for the destruction that he planned was ripe.

1915 E. C. Matthews Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom & Others 80 Instead of a single heart, he has a double heart. He is one thing before his master's face, but another thing behind his back.

1954 F. Crick & J. Watson in Proc. Royal Soc. A. 223 89 (heading) Detailed configuration of the double helix.

1962 T. Dobzhansky Mankind Evolving ii. 37 If the double helix separates into two single threads each can re-form an exact copy of the original double structure.

1968 J. D. Watson (title) The double helix.

1968 New Scientist 19 Sept. 592/1 The symbol of the molecular biological age is without doubt the ‘double helix’ of DNA.

1924 J. B. Maclean Life Insurance xiv. 257 Double indemnity benefits require but a few words.

1930 A. H. Mowbray Insurance xi. 170 Examination of the causes of accidents which will entitle the insured to double indemnity will disclose that these events are so spectacular..as generally to be given considerable publicity.

1948 J. B. Maclean Life Insurance I. xiii. 219 ‘Double Indemnity’..is a provision for payment of double the face amount of the policy if death is the result of an accident.

1969 J. Weidman Centre of Action (1970) viii. 91 It's for her own good. With a double-indemnity clause, which comes to twenty-eight dollars a year extra, she'll be financially independent at seventy-seven.

1910 W. W. Willoughby Constit. Law of U.S. I. §184. 439 It was held that by an act of Congress in 1902, the immunity from double jeopardy for crime as provided in the Constitution had been extended to the Philippines.

1969 M. L. Friedland Double Jeopardy i. 3 The history of the rule against double jeopardy is the history of criminal procedure. No other procedural doctrine is more fundamental or all pervasive.

1970 H. Waugh Finish me Off (1971) 194 If we charge him and the jury lets him off, there's no second chance. That's double jeopardy.

1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 291/1 Fascinators, hand made, double knit of Shetland floss.

1964 Observer 12 July 8/4 The double-knit jersey revolution, which has gathered in phenomenal profits for a handful of bright ladies' knitters.

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 243/1 Welsbach [gas] mantles..double-knitted.

1854 E. C. Gaskell North & South xii, in Househ. Words 14 Oct. 206/1 Mrs. Thornton..liked Mrs. Hale's double knitting far better.

1911–12 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 243/7 Beehive Double Knitting or Petticoat Yarn is a soft thick knitting yarn made of a fine quality of wool.

1938 M. Thomas Knitting Bk. 165 Double Knitting. A Tubular Fabric constructed on two knitting pins is worked as follows.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 29 Mar. (Suppl.) 9/1 3 oz. Emu Romany double-knitting or Scotch double-knitting wool.

1970 Guardian 24 Mar. 9/2 Regency Bainin double-knitting, for instance (used for our Aran tunic patterns) is available in twenty-four shades.

1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 275 The largest Island..appears to be high double Land.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Double-land, that appearance of a coast when the sea-line is bounded by parallel ranges of hills, rising inland one above the other.

1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 303 (note) Simonides..devised also these double letters in the Greeke Alphabete (namely ξ. ψ. θ).

1753 Scots Mag. July 328/2 The rates of double letters, are always double; of treble letters, treble.

a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) v. ii, in Wks. (1821) II. 135 The postman, who was just coming to the door with a double letter.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 42 That the Carpenters be good husbands..in..sparing to make double Mortises, which doe but weaken the Summers.

1753 F. Price Brit. Carpenter (ed. 3) 8 Double, or pully mortices, (as they are call'd).

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1481/1 The chisel..is a double one, each limb having two lips, adapting the tool to cut a double mortise.

1816 Ann. Reg. 1815 Chron. 104/2 The French generals and children gave him a double Napoleon each.

1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle ii. 24 From his pocket he had taken a pack of Patience cards and had begun to play the game called the Double Napoleon.

1883 F. H. Bradley Princ. Logic i. v. 131 (heading) The principles of identity, contradiction, excluded middle, and double negation.

1888 B. Bosanquet Logic I. vii. 324 The conclusion thus obtained..may be bonâ fide arrived at through the double negation I have described, and may be at first unsupported by the direct observation.

1961 I. M. Copi Introd. Logic (ed. 2) ix. 282 Using the Principle of Double Negation (D.N.), which asserts that p is logically equivalent to ∼∼ p.

1969 F. I. Dretske Seeing & Knowing ii. 57 Logicians are not tempted to abandon the rule of double negation.

1889 W. Armstrong Wrestling in W. H. Pollock et al. Fencing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 233 Probably the most dangerous move in Lancashire and Cornwall and Devon wrestling..is what is called the ‘Double Nelson’... To get behind an opponent, place both arms under his, and clasp your hands round the back of his neck and thus bend his head forward till his breast-bone almost gives way.

1903 J. J. Miller Sc. Sports 127 So Ingram slipped on a double-Nelson, pinned him down for the requisite 30 seconds, and then politely assisted him to rise.

1914 Motor Age 10 Sept. 8/3 (heading) Give Vassar the Double O... We travel by way of Poughkeepsie to gaze upon Vassar just to round out our college course.

1957 R. A. Heinlein Door into Summer (1960) i. 12 The cashier came over and leaned on my table, giving the seats on both sides of the booth a quick double-O.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 20 Nov. 4/3 A 9-h.p. runabout fitted with a double-opposed air-cooled engine.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 23 Mar. 4/2 A..double-opposed horizontal four-cylinder engine.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 1 Apr. 4/2 The double-opposed horizontal engine, which is made with two, four, and six cylinders.

1613 in C. Beswick Organs Worcester Cathedral (2004) Y^e..double organs in y^e Cathedral church of Worcester.

1907 Daily Chron. 12 Nov. 4/4 Double-oxers, stone-walls..and broad ditches.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Jan. 63/2 Such technicalities of the chase as..double oxers.

1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World vii. 273 On these the rower sits looking forward with a double paddle.

1629 C. Butler Oratoriæ sig. Aiv^v Genera literarum varia sunt: quæ corporum proceritate distinguuntur: Primier, Pique, English: & supra hæc, Great Primier, Double Pique, Double English: atque quod omnium maximum est, Canon.

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Pica Letter, a term among Printers being the Sixth Character in order of magnitude from Pareil, Small Pica being a degree less, and Double Pica a third degree beyond it.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 13 Most Printing-Houses have..Pearl, Nomparel, Brevier, Long-Primmer, Pica, English, Great-Primmer, Double-Pica, Two-Lin'd-English.

1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 226 The difference betwixt Two Lines Pica and Double Pica, as well in Face, as Body, is but inconsiderable.

1873 Specimen of Printing Types (Reed & Fox) Two lines Double Pica Runic.

1898 Daily News 7 Mar. 2/1 Most classes of goods have hitherto been made with a change of shed for each pick of weft put in by the shuttle. The weft in this double Pick Loom is carried on two bobbins placed in a shuttle of the same length as the ordinary one, and such is the nature of the arrangement that the weft is carried through the shed, and one end laid behind the other with the greatest ease.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 1032 He the ferste in thilke lond Was which the melodie fond of Riedes..With double pipes forto pipe.

1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations 57 The double pipe..was well known to the Greeks and Romans.

1989 P. van der Merwe Origins Pop. Style i. 10 A silver double pipe from Ur has actually come down to us from about 2500 bc.

1867 Ball Players' Chron. 6 June 2/3 A double play by Willard and Shaw..caused the Lowells to retire for a blank score.

1880 N. Brooks Fairport Nine ii. 36 A double play for the ‘White Bears’..and not a run scored.

1968 Washington Post 4 July c1/7 The Yankee second baseman..grabbed the ball, stepped on second and threw to first base for a double play.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 July 26/6 McCovey then bounced into a double play.

1653 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved (new ed.) xxix. 202 The Double Plough ploughing two Furrows at one time.

1704 Dict. Rusticum at Plough The Double-wheeled Plough, constantly used in Hartfordshire and elsewhere... The One-wheel-plough, which may be almost used in any sort of Land.

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 728/2 The double-plow, in which a shallow share preceded the deeper-running, longer plow, originated in England, where it is known as the skim-coulter plow.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 940/2 The originator of the double plow seems to have been Lord Somerville, who devoted much attention to the practical details of agriculture (1799). His plow..he called a double-furrow plow.

1892 W. Osler Princ. & Pract. Med. 525 Double pneumonia presents no peculiarities other than the greater danger connected with it.

1929 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 100/2 Usually pneumonia affects one lower lobe but it may extend to the whole lung or even to parts of both lungs (double pneumonia).

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Double Double point, in the higher Geometry. When all the right Lines tending the same Way, with the infinite Leg of any Curve, do cut it in only one Point.

1872 B. Williamson Elem. Treat. Differential Calculus (1873) xiv. §206 No cubic can have more than one double point.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 241 It causes a double refraction.

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xvii. 144 The refraction of the two pencils is called double refraction and the bodies which produce it are called doubly refractive bodies.

1926 F. Kilbourne Dot & Will (1929) 193 I would change to a single room in the hotel which was a little cheaper than the double one..we had.]

1931 Times 1 June 10/3 A large double room and private bathroom.

1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 176 These double salts are known as manganese alums.

1948 S. Glasstone Textbk. Physical Chem. (ed. 2) x. 807 When a double salt can exist as a solid phase the behavior on evaporation depends on whether the compound is stable in contact with water or not.

1880 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) iii. 25 The Double Saucepan is, on a small scale, what the bain-marie is on a large scale.

1961 Guardian 24 Mar. 12/6 Unless you have a very low heat on the top of your stove..it is really best to use a double saucepan.

1850 Knickerbocker 36 297 Send me the two double ‘saw-bucks’.

1925 Writer's Monthly June 486/1 Double sawbuck, a twenty dollar banknote.

1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 7/2 Double saw, twenty dollar bill.

1929 ‘C. Walt’ Love in Chicago 25 ‘What'd it net yuh, State Street?’ I asked. ‘A little over a double saw-buck, 'n' I stuffed it all on Hip-Bones, 'n' she ain't come in fur 'er oats yet.’

1936 L. Duncan Over Wall i. 21 I learned quickly that a dollar-bill was a fish-skin;..a twenty a double-saw.

1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 24 Double sawbuck, a twenty-year jail sentence.

1948 Time 17 May 87/1 Any tout or hustler around the track can usually work Eddie for a ‘double sawbuck’.

1950 H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 61/1 Double-saw, double-sawbuck, a prison sentence of twenty years.

1870 London Society Sept. 264 A small order for colza, or double sixes, or Souchong.

?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 91 The ordinary game—technically termed ‘double sixes’—is played with 28 dominoes.

1841 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg iv, in New Monthly Mag. 61 262 A double-barrel and double snipes Give the sportsman a duplicate pleasure.

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 138/1 Double sonata, a sonata for two solo instruments, as pianoforte and violin, or two pianofortes.

1899 J. London Let. 7 Jan. (1966) 11 Surely the double-spacing could not have led to a mistaken estimate of length.

1877 I. Rosenthal Gen. Physiol. Muscles & Nerves 15 Iceland-spar or, as it is also called, double spar.

1957 ‘M. Buttle’ Sweeniad ii. 55 In the literary weeklies, the languages of criticism and theology have become one and book reviews all sound like sermons written in the most holy ‘Double-Speak’.

1961 W. Kaufmann in G. E. Myers Self, Relig. & Metaphysics 99 The theologians have a way of redefining terms in rather odd ways, and frequently engage in something best called double-speak: their utterances are designed to communicate contradictory views to different listeners and readers.

1970 M. Pei Words in Sheep's Clothing i. 1 (heading) Double-speak in America.

1975 Economist 4 Jan. 31/3 ‘Indicative planning’ in Japan means almost the opposite of the term in current British doublespeak. In Britain planning would obviously be politically popular, because it means helping uneconomic firms to survive in uneconomic areas. In Japan it is recognised that planning would obviously be politically very unpopular..since planning means killing uneconomic industries more quickly than ordinary market forces would.

1985 Radio Times 28 Sept. 14/1 James Dean never consciously sought to be a god, or, indeed, a symbol for anything... The idea of heading a huge tidal wave of teenage revolt against the narrow, repressive, adult double-speak of the mid-50s did not occur to him.

1956 F. C. Avis Bookman's Conc. Dict. 88/1 Double spread, text matter or, more usually, an advertisement stretching across the whole of two facing pages.

1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) iv. 90 Without a robust double standard, the admittedly loose women play a losing game.

1962 New Statesman 16 Nov. 698/2 The greatest temptation into which the politically committed can be led is that of the double standard.

1962 W. H. Auden Dyer's Hand (1963) 3 In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

1968 ‘R. Amberley’ Incitement to Murder vi. 176 He no doubt follows a double standard. One for business and one for everyday life.

1968 S. Hynes Edwardian Turn of Mind vi. 177 The point about the double standard is made—that it is unjust of the husband to demand greater fidelity of his wife than he offers her.

1781 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 101 The second class of double stars.

1890 C. A. Young Elem. Astron. xiii. §462 Stars may be double in two ways, optically and physically..the majority of double stars must be really physically connected.

1936 O. Schniebs Skiing for All iii. 33 The double-stem (snow-plow position) is the brake in skiing.

1880 P. David in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 459 The term ‘double stopping’..is..indiscriminately used for any double sounds, whether produced with or without the aid of the open strings. The playing of double stops is one of the most difficult parts of the technique of the violin.

1943 Times Weekly 18 Aug. 5/2 Double summertime ended early on Sunday, when clocks were put back an hour.

1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches 61 Double summertime, introduced in Britain during the Second World War for economy. In winter the clock was one hour in advance of Greenwich mean time and in summer, two hours in advance of it.

1611 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) For haulfe a honndred of dubell tennes, xd.

1717 J. Tabor in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 30 559 Large Iron Nails..not quite so long, as those we call double Tenns.

1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 65 The latyne, Italiane, frenche, and spanyshe haue no doble W.

1841 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg iv, in New Monthly Mag. 61 262 A double U [i.e. W. = West] wind.

1885 J. Payn Talk of Town II. 232 Doubleyous and esses.

1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iv. ii. 859 The double-u is just next your bedroom.

1889 G. A. Berry Dis. Eye 504 The diplopia or double vision to which the condition gives rise.

1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 975/1 Paralysis of the muscles of the eye, producing diplopia or double vision.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 255 Every thing is now prepared for our double wedding. The marriage-articles for both couples are drawn and executed.

1864 C. M. Yonge Trial II. vi. 118 There was a proposal to join forces, and have a double wedding..the two school-fellows and two young friends.

1949 D. Smith I capture Castle (U.K. ed.) ix. 129 I accepted him and Rose and I arranged to have a double wedding.