chase

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1. A surname transferred from the nickname from a Middle English nickname for a hunter.
2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.

   ““Chase Strangio is our nation’s leading legal expert on the rights of transgender people, bar none,” said Cecillia Wang, the ACLU’s legal director.”

   ““We’re in a moment in this country where transgender people in this country are under attack in lawless ways,” said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who represented transgender teens at the high court.”

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noun

Etymology: Possibly from obsolete French chas (“groove”, “enclosure”), from Old French, from Latin capsa (“box”). Or perhaps a shortening or derivative of enchase. Doublet of case, cash, and chasse.

1. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
2. A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
3. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
4. The cavity of a mold.
5. A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.

verb

Etymology: Possibly from obsolete French chas (“groove”, “enclosure”), from Old French, from Latin capsa (“box”). Or perhaps a shortening or derivative of enchase. Doublet of case, cash, and chasse.

1. To groove; indent.
2. To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.

   “chase the pipe”

3. To cut (the thread of a screw).
4. To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.