nave - What does it mean?

Noun

(en-noun)

(architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.

* |chapter=5

|title= The Mirror and the Lamp |passage=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 prayer.}}

Noun

(en-noun)

A hub of a wheel.

* --William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act II, Scene 2

'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...

(obsolete) The navel.

* William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene 1:

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