deuce vs doublet

deuce

noun
  • A cast of dice totalling two. 

  • A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle fingers, a peace sign. 

  • A two-year prison sentence. 

  • A '32 Ford. 

  • A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards. 

  • 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold). 

  • A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points. 

  • A table seating two diners. 

  • The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger. 

  • A piece of excrement. 

  • A curveball. 

  • A side of a die with two spots. 

doublet

noun
  • Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost. 

  • A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii. 

  • A pair of two similar or equal things; couple. 

  • A man’s waistcoat. 

  • A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s. 

  • A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes. 

  • One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English). 

  • An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them. 

  • A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½. 

  • In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event. 

  • A word or phrase set a second time by mistake. 

  • A word ladder puzzle. 

  • An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct. 

  • Dipole antenna. 

How often have the words deuce and doublet occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )