chamber lye
English
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editEtymology
editFrom chamber + lye. Compare early modern Dutch camerlooghe, obsolete German Kammerlauge.
Noun
edit- (now archaic, regional) Urine, especially as used for domestic or agricultural purposes. [from 16th c.]
- 1665, Charles Cotton, Scarronides:
- [A] Hand, / So white, it made Æneas ſtand / Amaz'd to ſee't (for know that ſhe / Still waſht her hands in Chamber-Lee) […].