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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Double \Dou"ble\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Doubled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Doubling}.] [OE. doblen, dublen, doublen, F. doubler, fr. L. duplare, fr. duplus. See {Double}, adjective]
1. To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; as, to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length.
Double six thousand, and then treble that. --Shak.
2. To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth. --Prior.
Then the old man Was wroth, and doubled up his hands. --Tennyson.
3. To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
Thus re["e]nforced, against the adverse fleet, Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way. --Dryden.
4. To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion.
Sailing along the coast, the doubled the promontory of Carthage. --Knolles.
5. (Mil.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Doubling \Dou"bling\, noun
1. The act of one that doubles; a making double; reduplication; also, that which is doubled.
2. A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice. --Dryden.
3. (Her.) The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.
4. The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor.
5. raising the stakes in a game, such as a card game or backgammon, by a factor of 2.
Syn: double. [WordNet 1.5]
{Doubling a cape}, {promontory}, etc. (Naut.), sailing around or passing beyond a cape, promontory, etc.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
doubling
noun
1: increase by a factor of two; "doubling with a computer took no time at all"
2: raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff" [syn: {double}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "doubling": Janus, ambiguity, ambivalence, biformity, bifurcation, bush, bushing, conduplication, conjugation, copying, crease, creasing, crimp, dichotomy, dog-ear, double, doubleness, doublethink, doublure, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplicate, duplication, duplicature, duplicity, echo, equivocality, facing, filler, filling, flection, flexure, flounce, fold, frill, gather, gemination, halving, imitation, ingemination, inlay, inlayer, insole, interlineation, irony, iteration, lapel, lappet, liner, lining, packing, padding, pairing, plagiarism, plica, plication, plicature, ply, polarity, quotation, reappearance, rebirth, recurrence, redoubling, reduplication, reecho, regurgitation, reincarnation, reiteration, renewal, reoccurrence, repetition, replication, reproduction, resumption, return, ruche, ruching, ruffle, stuffing, tuck, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, wadding, wainscot
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