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chasery en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

chase + -ery?

Meanings

  1. (no-plural, uncountable) Chasing, engraved or embossed decoration.
    • ... of chasery and ornament. 1933, Arthur Eloesser, Modern German Literature, page 278:
    • 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
    • […] ; also a Chasery, with one Fire-place, and one pair of Bellows, for the Conveniency of the Hammer-man, where he meets with no Interruption from the Finers; a commodious Coal-house, with about 500 Tons of Bog Ore on the Bank, […] 1764, document, printed in 1902, Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey (New Jersey Historical Society), page 351
    • ANCONY, in the iron-mills, [is] a bloom wrought into the figure of a flat iron bar, […] The middle part is about three feet long, and of the shape and thickness the whole is to be; this is sent to the chasery, where the ends are wrought to the shape of the middle, and the whole made into a bar. 1810 [orig 1797? 1786?], Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, ..., page 676
    • 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

Coordinates

finery

chasery en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

chaser + -y

Meanings

  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 it’s not quite fetishy or chasery really it’s just like — it’s just cis people, right? Even good ones. Being comically over the top where you’re like okayyyy. 2021 January 21, Drew Burnett Gregory, “Shakina Nayfack on Her New Audible Play, NBC’s “Connecting…,” and Forming Trans Community Through Art”, in Autostraddle: