Crossword clues for chambered
chambered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chamber \Cham"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chambered; p. pr. & vb. n. Chambering.]
To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
To be lascivious. [Obs.]
Chambered \Cham"bered\, a. Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., past participle adjective from chamber (v.).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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(lb en often in combination) Having chambers. Etymology 2
v
(en-past of: chamber)
WordNet
adj. having compartmental chambers; "a spiral chambered seashell"
Wikipedia
Chambered is an adjective related to the word chamber. It may refer to:
- Chambered body, an element of some electric guitars
- Chambered cairn or Chambered long barrow, types of megalithic burial monument
- Chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius), the best-known species of nautilus
- Chambered stinkhorn (Lysurus periphragmoides), a species of fungus
- Three chambered heart or Four chambered heart, types of hearts
- The Four-Chambered Heart, a 1950 autobiographical novel
Usage examples of "chambered".
The most spectacular of Cretaceous mollusks were the ammonites, chambered cephalopods related to the modern pearly nautilus and, more distantly, to squid and octopus.
Especially useful are the ammonites, an extinct, shelled relative of modern octopus, squid, and the chambered nautilus.
But it was as if she had engaged the services of a smart attorney, like Jimmy Figaro, and the smart attorney was chambered in her mouth.
For chambered guns the sponges must fit the chambers and slopes, and a portion of the main bore, as shown in the drawings furnished by the Bureau.
In appearance it was not unlike a great chambered nautilus, pink, nacreous, and just translucent enough that any listener would be instantly detected and swallowed by the ferocious bytes that cruised these sacred streams.
Looking like an oversize M-16, the selective-fire shotgun chambered both standard and Magnum 12-gauge shot shells from a 7-round box magazine or a 20-round drum magazine.
Variable resistance is achieved by the use of cams, some of which are shaped like the cross section of the shell of the chambered nautilus, whence the name.
An elf from the Oceanic Isles could have told Jonathan that it was called a chambered nautilus, perhaps the most wonderful beast hi the sea.
On it, a large spiral-like that of the shell of a chambered nautilus-had been drawn.
He found himself looking into his cousin's closed heart as into the halved shell of a coiled and chambered nautilus.
Sharks have remained basically the same for a hundred million years, the chambered nautilus for five hundred million.
McLanahan reloaded his weapon in the barrel, chambered a round, decocked the action, ejected the magazine, put the sixteenth round back in the magazine to fill it completely again, then holstered and secured the weapon.
Unless, of course, one includes the famous chambered and paper nautiluses, in which case they survive even today.
He screwed the barrel back in, reracked the slide, shoved home the clip, and chambered a round.
He chambered the next round, rotated to his left where motion shimmered in the corner of his eye, and smashed the triangular skull of an alien seventy meters away.