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chambered, ppl. a.|ˈtʃeɪmbəd|
[f. chamber n. and v. + -ed.]
1. Furnished with a chamber or chambers. In Archæol., applied to a tomb containing a chamber or vault for the deposition of the dead. Also in comb., as many-chambered, six-chambered. chambered shell: see quot. 1847.
1382Wyclif Gen. vi. 16 Sowpyng placis, and thre chaumbred thou shalt make in it. 1483Caxton Descr. Brit. 16 A thre chambred hous made of vawte stones. 1611Florio s.v. Agucchia, To finde the thicknes of chambred peeces of the breach. 1845–6Trench Huls. Lect. i. iii. 55 This many-chambered palace of the Truth. 1847Ansted Anc. World viii. 140 As the [Nautilus] grows in size, it from time to time builds off a cup-shaped wall upon the soft rounded surface of the hinder part of the body, leaving as it goes a space behind it, which is occupied only by air or some gaseous substance, and acts as a float. Proceeding in this way, and building a succession of these walls, there is ultimately formed what is called a chambered shell. 1858Greener Gunnery 118 Although not a chambered gun, it will be seen..to be an attempt to obtain uniformity of thickness in every part of the arc. 1865J. Lubbock Prehist. Times iv. 91 The comparative rarity of chambered tumuli in western Europe. 1869Archæologia XLII. 233 The surprising similarity between the winter huts of the Esquimaux and the chambered tumuli of Sweden and Denmark. 1882St. James's Gaz. 25 Feb. 11 A six-chambered revolver. 1952Childe & Simpson Anc. Monum. Scotl. 15 Chambered cairns were used for burials over several generations.
2. Shut up in a chamber.
a1529Skelton Image Hypocr. i. 413 Your closse-chambered drabbes. 1710Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 218 If they lay resty and out of their Game, chamber'd, and idle.
3. Having a cavity or hollow underneath.
1683Lond. Gaz. No. 1810/4 A Sandy grey Gelding..a black Leather Saddle..Chambered for his Back. 1710Ibid. No. 4746/4 A red Saddle with 4 Brass Nails, and Chamber'd just by the Chine Bone of the off Side.
†4. = cambered; bent like a bow, arched. Obs.
[1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 353 Þey [the Irish] dryueþ hir hors wiþ a chambre ȝerde in þe ouer ende (virgam in superiori parte cameratam). ]1480Caxton Descr. Brit. 51 They driue their horses with a chambred yerd in the ouer ende in stede of bittes. 1616Lane Sq. Tale ix. 67 Well plantes the gapps with chambred iron slinges. |