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A room or set of rooms, particularly:
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A chamberpot.
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The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
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The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
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Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
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A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber
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An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
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The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
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Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.
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One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
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A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
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One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.