Noun

(head)

(legal) A judge's private office.

(UK, legal) The rooms used by a barrister or to an association of barristers.

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Noun

(en noun)

A room, especially one used primarily for sleeping; bedroom, sleeping room.

* 1845, ,

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

An enclosed space.

the chamber''' of a canal lock; the '''chamber''' of a furnace; the '''chamber of the eye

A ''test chamber'' is typically a closable case where devices under test are placed.

(firearms) The portion of the weapon that holds the ammunition round immediately prior to (and during initiation of) its discharge; each of the cylindrical compartments of a revolver that can hold a bullet

Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.

One of the legislative bodies in a government where multiple such bodies exist, or a single such body in comparison to others.

The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber .

A law office in a building housing several such offices, typically the office of a barrister in the United Kingdom or in the imagination of an African scammer.

(dated, in the plural) Apartments in a lodging house.

* Thackeray

a bachelor's life in chambers

(obsolete) A chamber pot.

(historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.