lethal chamber

American  

noun

1. a room or enclosure where animals may be killed by exposure to a poison gas.

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Etymology

Origin of lethal chamber

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

It has been and still is a matter of opinion," writes British Author Charles Duff, "whether, if you wish to kill your undesirable, it is better to...flay him until he dies, or hurl him over a precipice; or burn him or drown or suffocate him; or entomb him alive...or asphyxiate him in a lethal chamber, or press him to death or cut off his head; or produce a sort of coma by means of an electric current...

From Time Magazine Archive

In a fine moment burlesquing death-cell stoicism, Hope, getting ready for San Quentin's lethal chamber, sneers his low opinion of jails that haven't even changed over to electricity.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the case led him into conflict with Professor Moriarty, beetling-browed ruler of London's underworld who held his councils in a fearsome catacomb, Sherlock blandly donned his double-peaked cap and walked into the Professor's ambush�a lethal chamber.

From Time Magazine Archive

I date from that hour Miss Goucher's abandonment of her predilection for the lethal chamber; at least, she never spoke of it again.

From Project Gutenberg

No newly invented projectile was this, however, it being in fact just what it looked, and it contained something nondescript of the lizard tribe, reposing motionless on the harmless-looking chemical which constituted the jar a miniature lethal chamber.

From Project Gutenberg