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chamber lye

noun

Etymology

From chamber + lye. Compare early modern Dutch camerlooghe, obsolete German Kammerlauge.

  1. derived from Kammerlauge
  2. derived from camerlooghe

Definitions

  1. Urine, especially as used for domestic or agricultural purposes.

    • VVhy, you vvill allovv vs ne're a Iourden, and then we leake in your Chimney : and your Chamber-lye breeds Fleas like a Loach.
    • [A] Hand, / So white, it made Æneas ſtand / Amaz'd to ſee't (for know that ſhe / Still waſht her hands in Chamber-Lee) […].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chamber lye. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA