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chambering, vbl. n.|ˈtʃeɪmbərɪŋ|
[f. chamber n. and v. + -ing1.]
†1.
a. The furnishing of a room.
b. concr. Hangings or tapestry for a room. Obs.
c1449Pecock Repr. 521 What point of chaumbring, stabiling, gardeins, beddis..plesith oon gist, plesith not an othere. 1454Test. Ebor. (1836) 174, j blake bede with the chawmering of the same. 1480Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV, (1830) 130 Chamberyng off tapicery white and grene.
†2.
a. Sexual indulgence, lewdness; luxury, effeminacy. Obs.
1526Tindale Rom. xiii. 13 Let vs walke honestly..nether in chamburynge [Wyclif couchis, 1388 beddis] and wantannes. 1613R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Chambering, lightnesse, and wanton behauiour in priuate places.
†b. attrib. or adj. Luxurious, effeminate. Obs.
1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 82 Andronicus Palæologus..lived a chambering idle life within his Palace.
3. The providing (of a gun) with a chamber.
1880Times 27 Dec. 9/2 The calibre and chambering of the guns.
4. Zool. The formation of chambers or loculi. Cf. cameration 2.
1885Encycl. Brit. XIX. 846 The test has usually a chambered structure... The chambering of the test does not express a corresponding cell-segmentation of the protoplasm. |