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- English Word Treble Definition Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound.
- English Word Treble Definition Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice.
- English Word Treble Definition Trebly; triply.
- English Word Treble Definition The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano.
- English Word Treble Definition To make thrice as much; to make threefold.
- English Word Treble Definition To utter in a treble key; to whine.
- English Word Treble Definition To become threefold.
- English Word Trebled Definition of Treble
- English Word Trebleness Definition The quality or state of being treble; as, the trebleness of tones.
- English Word Treblet Definition Same as Triblet.
- English Word Trebling Definition of Treble
- English Word Trebly Definition In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply.
- English Word Trebuchet Definition Alt. of Trebucket
- English Word Trebucket Definition A cucking stool; a tumbrel.
- English Word Trebucket Definition A military engine used in the Middle Ages for throwing stones, etc. It acted by means of a great weight fastened to the short arm of a lever, which, being let fall, raised the end of the long arm with great velocity, hurling stones with much force.
- English Word Trebucket Definition A kind of balance for weighing.
- English Word Trechometer Definition An odometer for vehicles.
- English Word Treckschuyt Definition A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.
- English Word Treddle Definition See Treadle.
- English Word Treddle Definition A prostitute; a strumpet.
- English Word Treddle Definition The dung of sheep or hares.
- English Word Tredille Definition A game at cards for three.
- English Word Tree Definition Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
- English Word Tree Definition Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
- English Word Tree Definition A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
- English Word Tree Definition A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
- English Word Tree Definition Wood; timber.
- English Word Tree Definition A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
- English Word Tree Definition To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
- English Word Tree Definition To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.