Casemate: alternatives and connections

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.

A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.

The hinder part of anything; esp., the part of a cannon, or other firearm, behind the chamber.

The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdraw…

A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency.

A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it.

A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.

An apparatus in which the images of external objects, formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or other whit…

The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it…

A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.

The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.

The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody.

To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the re…

To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc.

The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.

An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.

An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze.