Mention is made of the Bishop of Ely's Chamber in an inquisition as to the extent and dimensions of the cemetery and cloister of the Temple, 10 Ed. III. 66. But the exact site is not easily identified.
No later mention.
·noun A chamber pot. II. Chamber ·vi To be lascivious. III. Chamber ·vt To shut up, as in a chambe...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
"on the wall," which the Shunammite prepared for the prophet Elisha (2 Kings 4:10), was an upper cha...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
, or chamber-piece A charge piece in old ordnance, like a paterero, to put into the breech of a gu...
The Sailor's Word-Book
(Genesis 43:30; 2 Samuel 18:33; Psalms 19:5; Daniel 6:10) The word chamber in these passages has muc...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·- A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant. II. Air chamber ·- A cavity containi...
·add. ·- The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is co...
·noun An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat wit...
An apartment in Eastern houses, furnished with a slightly elevated platform at the upper end and som...
The spare room on the upper floor of an Eastern dwelling (Mark 14:14; Luke 22:11). In Luke 2:7 the w...
the sifting-room. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
See chamber ...
The paterero, or inserting piece in breech-loading. ...
See (Bishop of) Ely, Soke. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
A paterero for loading a port-piece at the breech. ...
The seat or receptacle prepared for the powder-charge, usually at the end of the gallery, and out of...
The end of the bore modified to receive the charge of powder. In mortars, howitzers, and shell-guns,...