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

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

Not mad enough for the lethal chamber: not sane enough for any place but the division lobby.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard

This has practically nothing to recommend it, except that it is effective—an argument that can also be made for the "lethal chamber."

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul

How could they accompany him to the lethal chamber, if it were an ordinary working-day, with every moment of the time mapped out for them?

From A Christmas Garland by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

By the invention of the lethal chamber I have had the delightful privilege of removing the taste and pain of death from probably a million of those friends of man, the faithful dogs.

From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Leffingwell, Albert