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The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
- Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last praye
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The ground-level middle cavity of a barn.
nave
neiv6 senses · 41 ms
Level C1CET-6
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A hub of a wheel.
- 'Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods, In general synod take away her power; Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven[…]
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The navel.obsolete
- Till he faced the slave; / Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fix'd his head upon our battlements