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CASEMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A window sash that is hinged (usually on one side)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("casement" is a kind of...):
sash; window sash (a framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame)
Context examples:
Yet, by St. Paul! there is a long stride between the man who hath a horn casement and him who is walled in on every hand.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A wind fresh from Europe blew over the ocean and rushed through the open casement: the storm broke, streamed, thundered, blazed, and the air grew pure.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She was in the adjoining chamber while she still spoke, and opening the casement there, immediately called Mr. Knightley's attention, and every syllable of their conversation was as distinctly heard by the others, as if it had passed within the same apartment.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
With a cry of horror Alleyne sprang from his bed and rushed to the casement, while the two archers, aroused by the sound, seized their weapons and stared about them in bewilderment.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now and then, in passing a casement, you glanced out at the thick-falling snow; you listened to the sobbing wind, and again you paced gently on and dreamed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Foully murdered, with a score of wounds upon him and a rope round his neck, his poor friend had been cast from the upper window and swung slowly in the night wind, his body rasping against the wall and his disfigured face upon a level with the casement.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All this being nothing to me, my vacant attention soon found livelier attraction in the spectacle of a little hungry robin, which came and chirruped on the twigs of the leafless cherry-tree nailed against the wall near the casement.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The furniture once appropriated to the lower apartments had from time to time been removed here, as fashions changed: and the imperfect light entering by their narrow casement showed bedsteads of a hundred years old; chests in oak or walnut, looking, with their strange carvings of palm branches and cherubs' heads, like types of the Hebrew ark; rows of venerable chairs, high-backed and narrow; stools still more antiquated, on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Winter snows, I thought, had drifted through that void arch, winter rains beaten in at those hollow casements; for, amidst the drenched piles of rubbish, spring had cherished vegetation: grass and weed grew here and there between the stones and fallen rafters.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
As she said this, she approached her tall person and ample garments so near the window, that I was obliged to bend back almost to the breaking of my spine: in her eagerness she did not observe me at first, but when she did, she curled her lip and moved to another casement.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
