campshedding, -sheeting
[Prob. f. campshed n., app. the oldest form of the n.
If the 17th c. camp-shot were the original form, it would be necessary to conjecture that camp-shotting had been variously corrupted to -shutting, -sheeting, -sheathing, -shedding.]
Collective form of campshed n.
| 1819 Rees Cycl., Camp sheeting, camp shot, or campstead, in inland navigation denotes a facing of piles and planks in the front of banks or wharfs, to prevent the banks being worn away. 1858 Kingsley Chalk-stream Stud., Misc. I. 182 There is a campshutting (a boarding in English) upon which you can put your elbows. 1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe III. 201 The old gentleman..moved slowly down along the camp-shuting..Then the lad..slipped over the camp-shooting (will anybody tell me how to spell that word? Camps-heading won't do, my dear sir, all things considered). 1865 Bazalgette Metropol. Drainage 25 A channel is cut in the bed of the river..the sides protected by campsheathing. 1872 H. W. Taunt Map Thames 13 The old weir, with its broken campsheding. |