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cambrel
cambrel ? Obs. exc. dial. (ˈkæmbrəl) Forms: 5–8 cambrel, 6 camborell, 7 cambrell, cambril, cammeril, 9 dial. camrel, cammeril, cambril, cameral. See also chambrel, gambrel. [It is uncertain whether this is a mere variant or alteration of cambren (given as a synonym by Blount and Bailey, and really a...
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Gambrel
Other spellings include gamerel, gamrel, gambril, gameral, gambering, cambrel, cambering, chambrel referring to a wooden bar used by butchers to hang the
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cambren
† ˈcambren Obs. rare. [a. Welsh cambren, a combination of cam crooked + pren wood, stick, applied in Wales both to the butcher's cambrel, and to the swingle-tree used when one horse is yoked in front of another. (The latter in Anglesea is called bombren.)] = cambrel 1.1656 in Blount Glossogr. 1721 B...
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camrocke
camrocke Cf. cammock and cambrel.? a 1400 Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) 186 And with this crocket camrocke your backes I shall cloe.
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gambrel
ˈgambrel Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 6–7 gambrell, 7 gamberel, gambril(l, gamrell, (8–9 dial. gammerel), 7– gambrel. See also cambrel, chambrel, gamble n.2 [Perh. a. OF. (Norman) *gamberel, the pl. of which occurs in a document of 1452 (Godefroy); ‘Les bouchiers d'Evreux, quant ilz passent parmi le bois ...
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cameral
▪ I. ˈcameral, a. [a. Ger. kameral, ad. med.L. camerāl-is, f. camera in its late sense of ‘chamber, bureau’.] Of or pertaining to the camera or ‘chamber’; relating to the management of the state property (in Germany). Hence ˌcameraˈlistic a., ˌcameraˈlistics n. pl. (in Latin form cameralia).1762 tr....
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chambrel
chambrel ? Obs. (ˈtʃæmbrəl) [Another form of cambrel.] The bend or joint of the upper part of a horse's hind leg.1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Parts of Horse's Body, The Chambrel or Elbow. 1751 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Horse, The after joint, or bending of the hind leg [is called] the chambrel or elbow. 1...
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camber
▪ I. camber, n. (ˈkæmbə(r)) Also gamber. [a. F. cambre, f. cambrer: see next. Cf. cambrel.] 1. a. The condition of being slightly arched or convex above. Also concr. a flattened arch.1618 [see camber-keeled in 4]. 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 220 Camber..the convexity of a beam upon the upper edg...
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cambock
▪ I. cammock1 (ˈkæmək) Forms: 1 cammocc, -uc, 1, 4 cammoc, 4–7 cammok, 5 cambmok, chambmok, camok, -oke, -ocke, 6–8 cammock, 7 camock, 9 dial. cammick. [OE. cammoc, generally assumed to be from Celtic, and to be the same word as the next, with a reference to ‘crooked stems or roots’; but the plant i...
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