Word Meanings - LOCK-WEIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock chamber.

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• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CHAMBERER
  1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
• CANAL
  A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• CHAMBERED
  Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
• CANALICULATE; CANALICULATED
  Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• WASTEFUL
  1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
• CHAMBERMAID
  1. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. 2. A lady's maid. Johnson.
• CANALIZATION
  Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.
• WASTER
  1. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. Sconces are great wasters
• DISCHARGER
  One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
• DISCHARGE
  1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge
• WASTEWEIR
  An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.
• WASTEBOOK
  A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.
• CANALICULUS
  A minute canal.
• CHAMBERLAIN
  OHG. chamerling, chamarlinc, G. kämmerling, kammer chamber (fr. L. 1. An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers. 2. An upper servant of an inn. 3. An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a
• CHAMBERTIN
  A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• STAR-CHAMBER
  An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
• DECANAL
  Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side
• INCHAMBER
  To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.
• FOREWASTE
  See GASCOIGNE
• COMBUSTION CHAMBER
  A space over, or in front of , a boiler furnace where the gases from the fire become more thoroughly mixed and burnt. The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.
• AIR CHAMBER
  1. A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant. 2. A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.