Double
(To). To pass or sail round, as “to double the cape.”
The cape (or point) is twice between the ship and the land. (French,
doubler; Latin, duoplico.)
What capes he doubled, and what continent,
The gulfs and straits that strangely he had past.
Dryden: Ideas, stanza 1.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Double from Fact Monster:
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