CASEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does casement mean? 

• CASEMENT (noun)
  The noun CASEMENT has 1 sense:

1. a window sash that is hinged (usually on one side)

  Familiarity information: CASEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASEMENT (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 

I pulled, and pulled, at the door, and shook it till, massive as it was, it rattled in its casement. I could see the bolt shot.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was the first of June; yet the morning was overcast and chilly: rain beat fast on my casement.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I trembled and my heart failed within me, when, on looking up, I saw by the light of the moon the dæmon at the casement.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The light had suddenly gone out, the glimmering square of window had disappeared, and the third floor formed a dark band round the lofty building, with its tiers of shining casements.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These unfortunates crowded to the small casements, and craned their necks after the throng as far as they could catch a glimpse of them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To be sure, the pointed arch was preserved—the form of them was Gothic—they might be even casements—but every pane was so large, so clear, so light!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

For my temptation to think it a right, I refer every caviller to a brick house, sashed windows below, and casements above, in Highbury.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Uppercross was a moderate-sized village, which a few years back had been completely in the old English style, containing only two houses superior in appearance to those of the yeomen and labourers; the mansion of the squire, with its high walls, great gates, and old trees, substantial and unmodernized, and the compact, tight parsonage, enclosed in its own neat garden, with a vine and a pear-tree trained round its casements; but upon the marriage of the young 'squire, it had received the improvement of a farm-house elevated into a cottage, for his residence, and Uppercross Cottage, with its veranda, French windows, and other prettiness, was quite as likely to catch the traveller's eye as the more consistent and considerable aspect and premises of the Great House, about a quarter of a mile farther on.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She was sitting near the window, and as soon as Sir John perceived her, he left the rest of the party to the ceremony of knocking at the door, and stepping across the turf, obliged her to open the casement to speak to him, though the space was so short between the door and the window, as to make it hardly possible to speak at one without being heard at the other.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Moreover, the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)