See Also: shipworm(medicine)
shipworm(encyclopedia)

Chambery (iou) and shipworm (medicine)


Chambery (iou)



Chambery noun. M20.
[The town of origin, in SE France.]
A dry French vermouth; a drink of this.

shipworm (medicine)


shipworm
<zoology> Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc.