chamber
/ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/ verb C2- To enclose in a room. · She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
- To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
- To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition. · The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
- To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber. · The rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.
- To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy. · Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.
He/she/it chambers · Past chambered · Past participle chambered · -ing form chambering
Verb forms
- Base form
- chamber
- He/she/it
- chambers
- Past
- chambered
- Past participle
- chambered
- -ing form
- chambering
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They would sit in circles on the hall of the king’s council chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up and down the terraces of the king’s garden, where they would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall.
She had prepared a couch in the kitchen chamber for the desired and expected boy.
The hall was fearsomely clean; the little gable chamber in which she presently found herself seemed still cleaner.
In all essential respects the little gable chamber was unchanged.
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