Слово "treble". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

That is to say, after the sixteenth (or so) success of the red, one would think that the seventeenth coup would inevitably fall upon the black; wherefore, novices would be apt to back the latter in the seventeenth round, and even to double or treble their stakes upon it—only, in the end, to lose.

For my part, I must do my best to save this fellow's trebly worthless life; Jim, you get me a basin."

She was in a state of such violent excitement that her strength was trebled.

As if to confirm what we saw, the town fire siren wailed up the scale to a treble pitch and remained there, screaming.

“Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What d’you want to frighten a chap for?” He sank his face onto his arms and began to sob in a high treble key.

For my part, I must do my best to save this fellow's trebly worthless life; Jim, you get me a basin."

At first I could not make out what was the matter with his playing, something did not seem to me quite right, and then it struck me that the two hands did not exactly synchronize, so that there was ever so slight an interval between the bass and the treble; but I repeat, I am ignorant of these things; what disconcerted me might have been merely the effect of his having drunk a good deal of beer that evening or indeed only my fancy.

He spoke the word 'what' in a treble, 'can I' in a bass, and his 'do for you' did not come off at all.