/ · 1894 Brewer’s · D · Double up (To)
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To fold together. “To double up the fist” is to fold the fingers together so as to make the hand into a fist.
I doubled him up. I struck him in the wind, so as to make him double up with pain, or so as to leave him “all of a heap.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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