treble

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   three times as great or many

   A claim for treble (or triple) damages.

2. 2
   adj

   Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music.

   He put his cigar in his mouth, and, with his right hand, up in the treble keys, he began to play, in octaves, the melody of a song called "The Kinkajou," which, somewhat notably, had shifted into and ostensibly out of popularity before he was born.

3. 3
   adj

   Threefold, triple.

   A lofty tower, and strong on every side / With treble walls.

4. 4
   adv

   Trebly; triply.

   Whose deserts might buy him treble.

PIE word *tréyes From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple.

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