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Casement

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname from Irish.

Noun

1
A window sash that is hinged on the side.
"For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding."
2
a window sash that is hinged (usually on one side) wordnet
3
A window having such sashes; a casement window.ᵂᵖ
"Passing through Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful screeches, and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!’ in a most inimitable tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood."
4
A casemate. Some writers and readers consider casement a catachresis when used in this sense.

Etymology

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Asmuint (“son of Asmund”), a personal name derived from Old Norse Asmundr, which is composed by the elements áss (“god”) + mundr (“protection”).

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