chamber

Forms

1.A room or set of rooms
2.The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
- The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
3.Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
4.An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.

1.To enclose in a room.
- She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
2.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.
3.To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
- I chambered with Alexander Preston.
4.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.

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From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”).

Doublet of camera.