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CAMBER

Volume 6 · 54 words · 1860 Edition

according to our monkish historians, one of the three sons of Brute, who, on his father's death, received as his inheritance that part of Britain called from him Cambria; now Wales.

CAMBERED Deck, among ship-builders, is one which is higher in the middle of the ship's length, and droops towards the stem and stern.