Casement meaning

Noun: Casement

Pronunciation: (keys-munt)

Casement meaning:

• A window sash that is hinged or a window that opens on hinges like a door.

Synonyms: window sash 

Quotations: Sri Sathya Sai Baba – His mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.

William Butler Yeats – The ghost of Roger Casement is beating on the door.

Tom Larson – It was the inside, however, that really sold him on the place. The huge casement windows flooded each gum wood-trimmed, stucco-walled room with light. And the upstairs library clinched it for him, with its built-in bookshelves and brick-and-stucco fireplace.

William Makepeace Thackeray –  Who’s had almost every tooth out, cannot sing as once he sang, when he was young as you are young,when he was young and lutes were strung and love-lamps in the casement hung.

Sample sentences:

• The moon is seen through the casement window.
• I have a drawing of casement.
• I looked through my casement.