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chasery

chasery noun: chasing, engraved or embossed decoration.

Noun

chasery (countable and uncountable, plural not attested)

  1. (no plural, uncountable) Chasing, engraved or embossed decoration.
    • How opulent the unsullied marble spreads / With ornament; how decked with precious work / Of scroll and spray, volute and chasery, / And grave texts written clear in black and red Inlaid upon the white; not marring it / More than those blue veins mar a lady's neck.1889, The Literary World, volume 20, page 51
    • From Agra, city of delight / These tiny shoes have come to me, / Of alabaster carven white, / With clasp and chasery.1895, Emma Huntington Nason, The Tower: With Legends and Lyrics, volume 7, page 16
  2. (countable, no plural) A hearth or furnace where cast iron is heated and chased.
    • Philadelphia, Jan. 12, 1747-8. To be Sold, on reasonable terms, A Good forge, or iron-work, having three fires. viz. two finerys, and one chasery, with hammers.1748, document, printed in 1895, Documents Relating to the Colonial and Revolutionary History ..., page 431
    • To be Sold be John Abraham Denormandie, / One undivided quarter part of Mount Holly Iron Works, consisting of a furnace, two forges, in which there are three fineries, and a chasery, several dwelling-houses, and about 400 acres of land,1752 December 14, advertisement in The Pennsylvania Gazette, printed in 1897, Some Account of American Newspapers: Michigan-New Hampshire, page 210

Adjective

chasery

  1. Characteristic of a chaser (a person who sexually fetishizes trans people).
    • Drew: I loved how — and maybe this is me projecting my own whatever — but I loved how the cis partners in Butterfly Club were both very loving and supportive and enthusiastic and also sometimes crossed a certain line into — (sigh) — I don’t want to say too enthusiastic because that sounds mean and...2021 January 21, Drew Burnett Gregory, “Shakina Nayfack on Her New Audible Play, NBC’s “Connecting…,” and Forming Trans Community Through Art”, in Autostraddle

Origin of chasery

chase + -ery?

chaser + -y

Questions about chasery

What does chasery mean?
Chasery means chasing, engraved or embossed decoration.
What part of speech is chasery?
Chasery can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near chasery in the dictionary

  1. chaseport
  2. chaseports
  3. chaser
  4. chasericulture
  5. chasers
  6. chasery
  7. chases
  8. chases a rainbow
  9. chases after
  10. chases away
  11. chases down

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