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The alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top
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camber
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, a beam, roof deck, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides. 2 The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force. 3 (context architecture ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Ellie leaned back against the school piano, her gray skirt revealing the camber of her thighs. ▪ Snicking through St Mary's, a sharpish left-hander with an odd camber and change of surface.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Camber \Cam"ber\, n. [Of. cambre bent, curved; akin to F. cambrer to vault, to bend, fr. L. camerare to arch over, fr. camera vault, arch. See Chamber , and cf. Camerate .] (Shipbuilding) An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Camber , also Kamber , was the legendary first king of Cambria , according to the Geoffrey of Monmouth in the first part of his influential 12th-century pseudohistory Historia Regum Britanniae . According to Geoffrey, Cambria, the classical name for Wales ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, nautical term, from Old French cambre , chambre "bent," from Latin camurum (nominative camur ) "crooked, arched;" related to camera .
Usage examples of camber.
And today, as always, he raised defiant prayers to Camber of Culdi, whose lands these once had been, and who was and would remain a saint, so far as Queron Kinevan was concerned.
Fortunately, where Camber was concerned, God took that possibility out of their hands, by bodily assuming him into heaven.
They were the children of Saint Camber, and he had sworn to them, and he could not refuse anything they asked.
Dolban, and of Saint Camber himself, before draining the cup to its dregs.
Lady Elinor was previously married to one of the sons of the heretic Camber himself.
Queron recognized all the earmarks from his own experience with the Servants of Saint Camber and wondered whether Revan realized how powerful a charisma he possessed.
Both had later testified to their experience during the proceedings to canonize Camber, the king much against his will.
Anscom had agreed, and for many years remained the only one besides the immediate family to know that Alister Cullen was really Camber MacRorie.
Guaire of Arliss confided his most intimate experience of Camber to a zealous Gabrilite Healer-priest named Queron Kinevan.
Joram nor Camber dared defuse the allegations of sainthood with the truth without also giving away the impersonation.
She and Joram intended to try to reverse the spell that held Camber suspended in some twilight realm between life and death, and to have Queron attempt to Heal him before true death claimed him at last.
A wistful wondering whether something about Camber might not be supernatural after all.
Queron as well as Joram and Evaine, under circumstances that had nothing to do with the cult of Saint Camber now being so rigorously suppressed in the outside world.
Evaine asked, when they were safely back in the little study next door to the room where Camber lay.
They say he was a servant in the household of Rhys Thuryn and the daughter of Camber of Culdi.