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Definition of Trebling
1. treble [v] - See also: treble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trebling
Literary usage of Trebling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the by Archibald Alison (1860)
"In pursuance of these admirable principles, Mr Pitt trebling of proposed to treble
the assessed taxes, which fell chiefly on ..."
2. Economic Statesmanship: The Great Industrial and Financial Problems Arising by J. Ellis Barker (1920)
"... POSSIBILITY OF trebling OUTPUT* THE United Kingdom and the British Empire can
best pay off the gigantic debt which is accumulating owing to the War, ..."
3. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Spencer Perceval: Including His Correspondence with by Spencer Walpole (1874)
"... Bills— Question of Parliamentary Reform—Retained for the Prosecution of
Binns—Pitt's Scheme for trebling the Assessed Taxes —Opposition of Fox-—Reply to ..."
4. The Making of Herbert Hoover by Rose Wilder Lane (1920)
"Then the secret broke; the script leaped upward and upward again on the market,
doubling, trebling in price, and the company unloaded. ..."
5. The Vernacular Inscriptions of the Ancient Kingdom of Alban by Edward Williams Byron Nicholson (1896)
"trebling of letters is only found in mannn, and unless it means that the a is
shorter even than ordinary S — that the a is in fact a mere ..."
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