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Definition of 'nave'English
Etymology 1
Ultimately from (etyl) , via a Romance source.
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.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) nafu, from (etyl) ).
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
Related terms
* navel
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