Definitions for chambered

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chambered cham·bered

Spelling: [cheym-berd]

IPA: /ˈtʃeɪm bərd/

Chambered is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 431 anagrams from letters in chambered (abcdeehmr).

Definitions for chambered

noun

1. a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom:
2. a room in a palace or official residence.
3. the meeting hall of a legislative or other assembly.
4. chambers, Law. a place where a judge hears matters not requiring action in open court. the private office of a judge. (in England) the quarters or rooms that lawyers use to consult with their clients, especially in the Inns of Court.
5. a legislative, judicial, or other like body:
6. an organization of individuals or companies for a specified purpose.
7. the place where the moneys due a government are received and kept; a treasury or chamberlain's office.
8. (in early New England) any bedroom above the ground floor, generally named for the ground-floor room beneath it.
9. a compartment or enclosed space; cavity:
10. (in a canal or the like) the space between any two gates of a lock.
11. a receptacle for one or more cartridges in a firearm, or for a shell in a gun or other cannon.
12. (in a gun) the part of the barrel that receives the charge.
13. chamber pot.

adjective

1. having compartmental chambers:
2. of, relating to, or performing chamber music:

verb (used with object)

1. to put or enclose in, or as in, a chamber.
2. to provide with a chamber.

Origin of chambered

1350-1400; Middle English. See chamber, -ed³

Examples for chambered

A third subfamily, Discopylida, is formed by the building of a chambered equatorial girdle around the margin of Pylodiscus.

Never use other ammunition in your arm than that for which it is chambered.

In the centre of this chambered cortical shell lies constantly a trizonal or Larnacilla-shaped medullary shell.

Disk elliptical (6 : 7), with four chambered rings around the elliptical central chamber, of equal breadth.

Drawing my revolver, which was a six chambered one, I held it up.

Margin of the disk armed with numerous bristle-shaped radial spines, as long as the breadth of the chambered girdle.

This arm is chambered for the Colt .41 caliber short and long cartridges.

Pores in the phacoid shell regular, circular, five on its radius; in the chambered spongy girdle much smaller and irregular.

The Margin of the chambered disk exhibits many differences, which afford characters for the distinction of genera.

In an insane display of oneupmanship, Crittenton allegedly produced his own gun and chambered a round.