单词 | chamber door |
释义 | > as lemmaschamber door C1. General attributive and objective (esp. in sense 1a), as chamber door, chamber-keeping, chamber lamp, chamber page, chamber-prayer, chamber-servant, chamber-sweeping, chamber-wall, chamber window, etc. ΚΠ a1350 (?c1225) King Horn (Harl.) (1901) l. 982 (MED) Þe see him con ded þrowe vnder hire chambre wowe. 1350–1 in R. Stewart-Brown Accts. Chamberlains Chester (1910) 178 (MED) Chamber rent [to be paid yearly]. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 211 (MED) His chambre wyndowes. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 1742 Ho comez with-inne þe chambre dore & closes hit hir after. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 919 A nyghtyngale..Vpon þe chambre wal..Ful loude sang. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 459 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 314 Þo chambur sydes..He henges with tapetis. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 580 A chalmir page thar vith him ȝeid. 1516 in J. L. Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bishop's Stortford (1882) 35 For a key to Sr. Johns chamber-dore viijd. c1550 in Archaeologia 107 196/1 Chamber Fawcons of brasse. 1595 R. Hasleton Strange & Wonderfull Things sig. Ciiij And immediatly searching about, I found an olde Iron stub, with the which I brake an hole thorow the chamber wall. 1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widow (5th impr.) sig. F2v He begins to sticke his letters in his Ground chamber window. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 56/1 His Chamber-Prayers, Which are pour'd 'midst Sighs and Tears To avert God's fearful Wrath. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 16 Bed-making, Chamber-sweeping, and Water-fetching. 1725 W. Halfpenny Art of Sound Building Pl. 19 The Chamber Plan, and Section. 1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals III. App. 397 He knew his Master was not come home, because he saw a light in his Chamber Window. 1777 J. Howard State Prisons Eng. & Wales 85 The Chamber-Rents are all regulated [in France]. 1781 R. Twining Jrnl. 28 Sept. in Sel. Papers Twining Family (1887) 87 His own valet sleeps upon a little bed placed at the outside of his chamber door. 1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook III. iv. 60 Mrs. Phillips..lighted a chamber candlestick to go to bed. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 49 The chamber-servants are..accomplished in their business. 1880 J. Lomas Man. Alkali Trade 43 Only by his drips and chamber caps can an acid maker know exactly what is going on in his chambers. 1931 Amer. Jrnl. Police Sci. 2 481 These markings of the chamber rim also appear if the cartridge is placed directly in the chamber with the slide opened. 1958 C. M. Watkins in H. Comstock Conc. Encycl. Amer. Antiques 360 Blown-glass types ranged from tiny chamber lamps to splendid standing specimens with bell-shaped bases and knopped stems. 1971 P. J. McMahon Aircraft Propulsion x. 298 A chamber pressure of 6 000 kN/m2. 2000 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 13 Sept. Chamber members who register today will be charged $349 for a booth. < as lemmas |
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