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Webster 1913 Edition


Casement

Case′ment

,
Noun.
[Shortened fr.
encasement
. See
Incase 1st Case
, and cf.
Incasement
.]
(Arch.)
A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted.
(Poetically)
A window.
A
casement
of the great chamber window.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Casement

CASEMENT

,
Noun.
1.
A hollow molding, usually one sixth or one fourth of a circle.
2.
A little movable window, usually within a large, made to turn and open on hinges.

Definition 2024


casement

casement

English

Noun

casement (plural casements)

  1. A window sash that is hinged on the side and opens outward.
  2. A window having such sashes; a casement window.Wp
    • 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night
      The street-lamps always burn; but scarce a casement / In house or palace front from roof to basement / Doth glow or gleam athwart the mirk air cast.
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter I”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
  3. (military) A casemate.

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