Dot and go one, a lame or limping man.
Do the high, to walk up and down High Street on Sunday evenings, especially just after Church.—Oxford University.
Double, “to tip (or give) the DOUBLE,” to run away from any person; to double back, turn short round upon one’s pursuers, and so escape, as a hare does.—Sporting.
Double cross, a CROSS in which a man who has engaged to lose breaks his engagement, and “goes straight” at the last moment. This proceeding is called “doubling” or “putting the double on,” and is often productive of much excitement in athletic circles.—See [CROSS].
Double lines, ship casualties. So called at Lloyd’s from the manner of entering in books kept for the purpose.
Double-shuffle, a low, shuffling, noisy dance, common amongst costermongers. Sometimes called “cellar flap,” from its being danced by the impecunious on the cellar-flaps of public-houses, outside which they must perforce remain.
Doublet, a spurious diamond, made up of two smaller stones for pawning or duffing purposes. These articles are cleverly manufactured and excellently set, and a practised eye can alone detect the imposition.—See [Moskeneer].
Double up, to pair off, or “chum” with another man; to beat severely, so as to leave the sufferer “all of a heap.”
Doughy, a sufficiently obvious nickname for a baker.
Douse, to put out; “DOUSE that glim,” put out that candle. In Norfolk this expression is DOUT, which is clearly for DO OUT. Sometimes DOUSE means to rinse; and sometimes to throw water, clean or dirty, over any one, is to “DOUSE it.”