In an insane display of oneupmanship, Crittenton allegedly produced his own gun and chambered a round.
This is the case with all the guns, chambered as well as unchambered, excepting the 8-inch shell-gun of 63 cwt.
Pores in the phacoid shell regular, circular, five on its radius; in the chambered spongy girdle much smaller and irregular.
Insect and fungous enemies beset the species, and take advantage of breaks to invade the twigs through the chambered pith.
Disk elliptical (6 : 7), with four chambered rings around the elliptical central chamber, of equal breadth.
The walnut and butternut have chambered piths which distinguish them from all other trees and from each other.
A third subfamily, Discopylida, is formed by the building of a chambered equatorial girdle around the margin of Pylodiscus.
We have now only one species living, the chambered nautilus.
This arm is chambered for the Colt .41 caliber short and long cartridges.
The chambered straight-horns are fewer and smaller, and coiled forms of this type of shell are found.
c.1200, "room," usually a private one, from Old French chambre "room, chamber, apartment," also used in combinations to form words for "latrine, privy" (11c.), from Late Latin camera "a chamber, room" (see camera). In anatomy from late 14c.; of machinery from 1769. Gunnery sense is from 1620s. Meaning "legislative body" is from c.1400. Chamber music (1789) was that meant to be performed in private rooms instead of public halls.
late 14c., "to restrain," also "to furnish with a chamber" (inplied in chambered, from chamber (n.). Related: Chambering.
chamber cham·ber (chām'bər)
A compartment or enclosed space.
"on the wall," which the Shunammite prepared for the prophet Elisha (2 Kings 4:10), was an upper chamber over the porch through the hall toward the street. This was the "guest chamber" where entertainments were prepared (Mark 14:14). There were also "chambers within chambers" (1 Kings 22:25; 2 Kings 9:2). To enter into a chamber is used metaphorically of prayer and communion with God (Isa. 26:20). The "chambers of the south" (Job 9:9) are probably the constelations of the southern hemisphere. The "chambers of imagery", i.e., chambers painted with images, as used by Ezekiel (8:12), is an expression denoting the vision the prophet had of the abominations practised by the Jews in Jerusalem.