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  • noun Plural form of treble.

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Examples

  • Students will be getting less for the increases: larger campus enrollments mean taxed services, ballooning class sizes, stressed faculty as workload trebles, faculty salaries shrink relative to the cost of living, and administrative support for teaching and research dries up with extensive layoffs, taxing campus infrastructures.

    David Theo Goldberg: The University We Are For? David Theo Goldberg 2011

  • The text earns a primary place even when sung by the boy trebles, who enunciate perfectly.

    Byrd's Music for Corpus Christi 2009

  • It is one mother duck and four ducklings swimming in a line. each duckling has one treble hook and the hen has two trebles.

    Does anybody know what type of lure, or plug to use to catch a tiger muskey? 2009

  • Students will be getting less for the increases: larger campus enrollments mean taxed services, ballooning class sizes, stressed faculty as workload trebles, faculty salaries shrink relative to the cost of living, and administrative support for teaching and research dries up with extensive layoffs, taxing campus infrastructures.

    David Theo Goldberg: The University We Are For? David Theo Goldberg 2011

  • It is one mother duck and four ducklings swimming in a line. each duckling has one treble hook and the hen has two trebles.

    Does anybody know what type of lure, or plug to use to catch a tiger muskey? 2009

  • So in my left hand I am holding the crankbait (two trebles hooks still attached to it), and in my right hand the drill.

    When It's In Past The Barb 2009

  • I used big trebles with the lead weight built into the hook.

    snagging fish 2009

  • I used big trebles with the lead weight built into the hook.

    snagging fish 2009

  • So in my left hand I am holding the crankbait (two trebles hooks still attached to it), and in my right hand the drill.

    When It's In Past The Barb 2009

  • A-plus for innovation on this one I say, because I love fishing Spooks, but I hate picking weeds off the trebles.

    Money "Walks" 2009

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