To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
To enclose in a room.
One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
The private office of a judge.
One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
A single law office in a building housing several.
The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
A bedroom.
An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.
A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
A stage of a journey, race etc.
A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
Something that supports.
One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.