单词 | chambered |
释义 | chamberedadj. 1. a. Having a chamber or chambers (in various senses). Originally and frequently with modifying word specifying the number of chambers, as single-chambered, three-chambered, etc.air-, four-, Gomer-, many-, two-chambered, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > having compartments or chambers chambereda1382 cellulara1728 multilocular1754 cellated1832 pigeonholed1848 compartmented1851 multi-camerate1878 multiloculate1890 multiloculated1899 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [adjective] > others stocked1497 breeched1575 chambered1611 tower-proof1673 triggerless18.. hair-triggered1806 vizyless1828 high-velocity1854 sighted1859 calibred1887 recoilless1888 sham-damn1895 silenced1909 silencered1935 multicalibre1983 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. vi. 17 Soupyng placeȝ & þre chaumbred: þou schalt make in it. 1483 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 16 A thre chambred hous made of vawte stones. c1550 in Archaeologia 107 195/1 Ordenaunce and munycyons... Chambred Fawcons. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Agucchia To finde the thicknes of chambred peeces of the breach. 1692 W. Bromley Remarks Grande Tour France & Italy 43 The Mortar-pieces, which I observed to be all Chambered. c1764 J. Smeaton Reports (1812) I. 212 They are seldom rebored so long as a new leathered piston can be got in at the mouth so as to fill the chambered part. 1796 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars with Barbary Powers (1939) I. 130 Remarks..relative to the New Brig, for the Deyof Algiers... 2 good Chambered pumps, pump well Snug—Pump geer. 1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. xv. 332 Families of fossil chambered shells, that possessed siphunculi. 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 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. 1892 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation (ed. 4) II. 291 Simple or one-chambered hearts. 1922 Gas Manuf., Distribution & Use (Brit. Commerc. Gas Assoc.) ii. 90/1 He then tried an arrangement consisting of a chambered drum revolving horizontally in water. 1960 C. Williamson Amer. Suffrage iv. 68 Legislative power had been vested in a single-chambered legislature, the Witan. 1991 Munic. Rev. & AMA News Jan.–Feb. 241/4 MGB Waste Systems Ltd are supplying the 4,000 households with two 240 litre MEKAM dual chambered bins free of charge. 2001 N.Y. Times 14 Oct. a18/2 Goats, with their four-chambered stomachs and seemingly limitless appetite for thorny brush, become fixtures in the landscape. b. Archaeology. Of a tomb: containing one or more burial chambers. Cf. chamber n. 10c. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [adjective] mausolean1785 chambered1840 mausoleal1883 transepted1939 1840 E. C. Gray Tour to Sepulchres of Etruria ix. 444 The most perfectly preserved..of any of the many chambered sephulcres we visited. 1869 Archaeologia 42 233 The surprising similarity between the winter huts of the Esquimaux and the chambered tumuli of Sweden and Denmark. 1907 T. R. Holmes Anc. Brit. i. iii. 106 Intimately related to certain chambered long barrows and the famous horned cairns, which exist only in Caithness. 1952 V. G. Childe & W. D. Simpson Anc. Monuments Scotl. 15 Chambered cairns were used for burials over several generations. 1999 R. Deakin Waterlog (2000) ii. 9 I set off past the Great Pool, a shallow fresh-water tarn outside the modest Hell Bay Hotel.., climbed Gweal Hill and found a ruined Bronze-age chambered tomb. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > slightly upwards in the middle chambered1480 cambered1627 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 353 Þey [sc. the Irish] dryueþ hir hors wiþ a chambre ȝerde in þe ouer ende [L. virgam in superiori parte cameratam].] 1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. xxvii They driue their horses with a chambred yerd in the ouer ende In stede of bittes. 1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale ix. 67 Well plantes the gapps with chambred iron slinges. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [adjective] > types of saddle chamberedc1540 upper-flapped1850 McClellan1864 centre-fire1904 poley1930 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > enclosed > in or as in other specific enclosure or receptacle chamberedc1540 housed1569 bagged1572 celled1586 arboured1606 closeteda1649 vesselled1660 cabineted1680 encysted1705 caverned1734 mounded1807 castled1821 casketed1822 styed1829 tree-embowered1866 tunnelled1901 c1540 Image Ipocrysy i, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 419 Your closse chambred drabbes. 1604 T. Dekker Newes from Graues-end sig. F2v So many Incests, violent Rapes, Chambered adulteries, vncleane passions, Wanton habits, riotous fashions. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iv. ii. 218 If they were once out of their Game, chamber'd, or kept idle. a1849 T. L. Beddoes Pygmalion in Poems (1851) 156 The chambered ladies silenced the half-song. Compounds chambered nautilus n. Zoology = nautilus n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Tetrabranchiata > family Nautilidae > species nautilus nautilus1601 chambered nautilus1777 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 286 The Pearly Chambered Nautilus, or Sailor.] 1777 E. Jacob Plantæ Favershamienses 143 The chambered Nautilus, is a common Fossil of these Cliffs. 1892 Science 30 Dec. 369/2 The first horizontal cases contain shells of the Paper Nautilus; then several species of the Chambered Nautilus. 2004 Amer. Biol. Teacher 66 384/3 Footage of the Chambered Nautilus is shown, exhibiting how they come to surface at night to feed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1382 |
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