What is "doubled up"

Usage examples of "doubled up".

He lay doubled up on one side, facing the woman, with an arm flung out across her stomach.

I hung by my left hand, reached down with my right while I doubled up my legs.

Tippoo was in convulsions, doubled up with agony, his belly swollen and hard as a yellow agate boulder.

If they had not circumnutated, their tips would have been liable to have been doubled up, as often as they met with obstacles in their path.

Troll doubled up a ham-size fist and beat heads like a man playing bongos.

Lucilla, not knowing what might happen next, folded her body sideways, barely avoiding the woman's suddenly outthrust foot, and countered with a standard Bene Gesserit sabard that dumped the young woman on her back doubled up where the blow had caught her in the abdomen.

Only two of their dogs were left alive and one of the horses was limping so badly the rider had doubled up with another.

He doubled up his right hand into a fist and clasped it with his left.

Chalcus punched Rincip in the stomach, then kneed him in the jaw as he doubled up.

Then he had groped back to his chair, almost doubled up with pain.

Craig collapsed on his side, doubled up likea foetus, coughing and heaving the water from his lungs and shaking violently with cold.