chambering, vbl. n.
(ˈtʃeɪmbərɪŋ)
[f. chamber n. and v. + -ing1.]
† 1. a. The furnishing of a room. b. concr. Hangings or tapestry for a room. Obs.
| c 1449 Pecock Repr. 521 What point of chaumbring, stabiling, gardeins, beddis..plesith oon gist, plesith not an othere. 1454 Test. Ebor. (1836) 174, j blake bede with the chawmering of the same. 1480 Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV, (1830) 130 Chamberyng off tapicery white and grene. |
† 2. a. Sexual indulgence, lewdness; luxury, effeminacy. Obs.
| 1526 Tindale Rom. xiii. 13 Let vs walke honestly..nether in chamburynge [Wyclif couchis, 1388 beddis] and wantannes. 1613 R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Chambering, lightnesse, and wanton behauiour in priuate places. |
† b. attrib. or adj. Luxurious, effeminate. Obs.
| 1652 Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 82 Andronicus Palæologus..lived a chambering idle life within his Palace. |
3. The providing (of a gun) with a chamber.
| 1880 Times 27 Dec. 9/2 The calibre and chambering of the guns. |
4. Zool. The formation of chambers or loculi. Cf. cameration 2.
| 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 846 The test has usually a chambered structure... The chambering of the test does not express a corresponding cell-segmentation of the protoplasm. |