Dou"ble-quick` (?), a. (Mil.) Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.
Dou"ble-quick`, n. Double-quick time, step, or march.
Double-quick time requires 165 steps, each 33 inches in length, to be taken in one minute. The number of steps may be increased up to 180 per minute.
Dou"ble-quick`, v. i. & t. (Mil.) To move, or cause to move, in double-quick time.
Dou"bler (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, doubles.
2. (Elec.) An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.
Dou"ble-rip"per (?), n. A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other. [Local, U. S.]
Dou"ble-shade` (?), v. t. To double the natural darkness of (a place). Milton.
Doub"let (?), n. [In sense 3, OF. doublet; in sense 4, F. doublet, dim. of double double. See Double, a.] 1. Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.