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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
... 1881: 50; Kent. English: see Comber...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
... Very shallow, scarcely perceptible upward curve, often apparent on the underside of collar -and- tie beams in a truss . A camber-arch is therefore the soffit of a ‘flat’ arch of brick rubbers achieved by using a camber-strip as a support for the intrados during...
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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
... A slight upward curvature of a surface, such as a cross-section of a highway, or in structural members (e.g. camber beams ) to resist dead and imposed loads, such that the beam sits flat and prevents sag in...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... In British legend, the second son of brute . Wales fell to him and hence (in popular mythology) received its name of cambria...
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Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 271 1 English (Kent): variant of Comer . 2 In some cases possibly an American shortened and altered form of Greek Kamberis , from kamberis ‘devoted servant’, a word of Turkish origin, or an Americanized form of Croatian, Serbian, or Bosniak cognate Kamber...
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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)
... . 1 The athwartships curve of a ship's deck, usually giving a fall towards the sides of a quarter of an inch (6.35 mm) to each foot (30.5 cm). 2 A small enclosed dock in a dockyard in which timber for masts and yards was kept to weather and pickle in salt water, and used also to provide a shelter for small boats. In the USA such a dock was known as a cob or cobb ...
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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
...camber A beam that has an unloaded upward deflection so that when loaded it avoids the appearance of...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
... • Current frequencies: GB 94, Ireland 0 • GB frequency 1881: 50 • Main GB location 1881: Kent English : see Comer . Camber, 1881 frequency. © Archer...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
... XVII. — OF. cambre , dial. var. of OF. chambre arched :- L. camurus curved inwards . So as vb. ...
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A Dictionary of British Place Names
... E. Sussex . Camere 1375 , Portus Camera 1397 , Caumbre 1442 . From OFrench cambre (Latin camera ) ‘a room, an enclosed space’, perhaps originally with reference to a small harbour here before the silting up of the Rother...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • abba , blabber, dabber, grabber, jabber, stabber, yabber • Alba , Galba • amber , camber, caramba, clamber, Cochabamba, gamba, mamba, Maramba, samba, timbre • Annaba , arbor, arbour, barber, Barbour, harbour ( US harbor), indaba, Kaaba, Lualaba, Pearl Harbor, Saba, Sabah, Shaba • sambar , sambhar • rebbe , Weber • Elba • Bemba , December, ember, member, November, Pemba, September • belabour ( US belabor), caber, labour ( US labor), neighbour ( US neighbor), sabre ( US saber), tabor • chamber • bedchamber • antechamber • amoeba ...
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
... 1881: 65; Beds and Hunts. English: variant of Camber ( see Comber ), with post-medieval excrescent -s...
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A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences (5 ed.)
... Consistent dip of strata towards local valley floors, in conflict with the general regional dip. It is well displayed in the English Midlands, where ironstone beds above clays are cambered down as much as 30 m below their original level. It is probably due to large-scale structural disturbance when permafrost thawed and when the plastic clays allowed overlying massive beds to flow towards...
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A Dictionary of Ecology (5 ed.)
... The consistent dip of strata towards valley centres, in conflict with the general regional dip. It is well displayed in the English Midlands, where ironstone beds above clays are cambered down as much as 30 m below their original level. It is probably due to large-scale structural disturbance when permafrost thawed and the plastic clays allowed overlying massive beds to flow towards...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
... • Current frequencies: GB 89, Ireland 0 • GB frequency 1881: 65 • Main GB location 1881: Beds and Hunts English : variant of Camber ( see Comer ), with post-medieval excrescent -s . Cambers, 1881 frequency. © Archer...
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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
...1. The upper-most part of a building. 2. The middle of a cambered...
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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
...tile A small rectangular roofing tile, usually clay or concrete, that has a slight camber...
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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
...A cambered surface, a beam that bends upwards towards its...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... [Co] 1 Latin name for a cambered, artificially raised causeway or ridge of consolidated earth or stone carrying a Roman road. 2 The rampart of a Roman...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
... or hogging 1. Siftings or screenings separated by a sieve from the stones of rough pit-gravel, used for paths , while the larger stones are employed in carriage-ways. 2. Camber of a...
