Word Meanings - SLEET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

Related words: (words related to SLEET)

• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• CHAMBERER
  1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
• CHAMBERED
  Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• MORTAR
  A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45º, and even higher; - - so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described. Mortar bed , a framework of wood and
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• EXTEND
  To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended
• CHAMBERMAID
  1. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. 2. A lady's maid. Johnson.
• EXTENDIBLE
  Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. (more info) 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.
• CHAMBER
  1. To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers. 2. To be lascivious.
• 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
• EXTENDEDLY
  In an extended manner.
• CHAMBERTIN
  A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.
• EXTENDER
  One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.
• CHAMBERLAINSHIP
  Office if a chamberlain.
• 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
• INCHAMBER
  To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.
• 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.
• BEDCHAMBER
  A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in. Shak. Lords of the bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar
• COEXTEND
  To extend through the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree. According to which the least body may be coextended with the greatest. Boyle. Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all
• INEXTENDED
  Not extended.
• ANTICHAMBER
  See ANTECHAMBER
• UNDERCHAMBERLAIN
  A deputy chamberlain of the exchequer.
• ARCHCHAMBERLAIN
  A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.