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lower chamber

[ loh-er ]

lower chamber

noun

  1. another name for lower house


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Word History and Origins

Origin of lower chamber1

First recorded in 1880–85

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Example Sentences

The lower chamber had voted to approve the latest GOP continuing resolution by a vote of 228-201 on Monday evening.

Decent reform legislation passed its lower chamber 165 to 1.

A hole is punched in the side of the lower chamber with an awl, and the fuse inserted through this opening.

The lower chamber is then loaded with powder and closed by turning over the paper at the end.

There is also a fuse extending from the powder in the lower chamber through the side of the cracker.

Clinton Paige, and myself, were in the lower chamber, and Moseley on the Senate side.

We are assured that the king's warrant decreeing the dissolution of the Lower Chamber will be officially published to-morrow.

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