reduplicating

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Twenty yards of the rope already in hand was set against stones—whose weight they had already determined by reduplicating a number of bullets—and its quantity ascertained in pounds and ounces.

From The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Reid, Mayne

Another was for the making of jig-saw puzzles, a third for their elucidation, a fourth was for typewriting; and there was a reduplicating apparatus, and another table with materials for illuminating.

From The Eldest Son by Marshall, Archibald

No amount of after manipulation could condone so vicious a slaughter of space and line opportunities which the background, with its reduplicating edge, accomplishes.

From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Poore, Henry Rankin

He was also guilty of reduplicating the first syllables of words, producing such expressions as p�p�tiller, sousouflantes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

The Octave is the starting-point of a new series reduplicating the starting-point of the previous series at a different level, just as does the octave note in music.

From The Doré Lectures being Sunday addresses at the Doré Gallery, London, given in connection with the Higher Thought Centre by Troward, T. (Thomas)