The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
1. (Cookery) A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together. 2. A seller of fish. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Chowder beer, a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction. To make a chowder of.