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Webster 1913 Edition
Compartment
1.
One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines;
as, the
. compartments
of a cabinet, a house, or a gardenIn the midst was placed a large
compartment
composed of grotesque work. Carew.
2.
(Shipbuilding)
One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.
Webster 1828 Edition
Compartment
COMPARTMENT
, n.1.
A division or separate part of a general design, as of a picture, or of a ground-plot.2.
A design composed of several different figures, disposed with symmetry, for ornament; as a compartment of tiles or bricks, duly arranged, of various colors and varnished, to decorate a building. In gardening, compartments are assemblages of beds, plots, borders, walks, &c. In heraldry, a compartment is called also a partition.