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Definition of Cammed
1. cam [v] - See also: cam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cammed
Literary usage of Cammed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect by John Howard Nodal, George Milner (1875)
"cammed is an epithet which is often applied to a 1854 - temper that is not quite
so even and straight as it should be, as " Eh ! hoo's in a terrible cammed ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"cammed is an epithet which is often applied to a l8**' temper that is not quite
so even and ... "Eh! hoo's in a terrible cammed humour to-day!" Ltd. Lane. ..."
3. Ordnance and Gunnery: A Text-book Prepared for the Cadets of the United by Ormond Mitchell Lissak (1907)
"The mainspring is partially compressed in the movement of unlocking the bolt by
the action of a cammed surface of the bolt against the cocking cam on the ..."
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