Camibalistics

• baliste: (French) a type of siege engine
  • "Baliste (Tite-Live) et catapulte (Vitruve) à côté de bélier". ("Ballista (Livy) and catapult (Vitruvius) are similar to a battering ram").
    • Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais, Vol.1, p. 91 (Paris 1922)

• camisade: (French)
  • "Camisade... Attaque sur l'ennemi avant l'aube, ou en un autre temps de nuit, des gents armés et couverts de chemises blanches ou autre telle estoffe pour s'entre connoistre". ("An attack on the enemy before dawn, or at another time during the night, by armed men dressed in white shirts or similar covering to recognise themselves").
    • Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais, Vol.1, p. 90 (Paris 1922)

• camibalistics → cum (Latin/English) + balls (testicles); see also Whoyteboyce and Verdons
  • cum: (Latin) with; used in indicating a thing with two roles, functions, or natures, or a thing that has changed from one to another [1]
  • cum: (slang) Male semen. As a noun meaning "semen or other product of orgasm" it is on record from the 1920s [2]

• camibalistics: → cannibals, someone who eats human flesh
  • Strabo, Geography, 4-5-5: "Besides some small islands round about Britain, there is also a large island, Ierne, which stretches parallel to Britain on the north, its breadth being greater than its length. Concerning this island I have nothing certain to tell, except that its inhabitants are more savage than the Britons, since they are man-eaters as well as heavy eaters, and since, further, they count it an honorable thing, when their fathers die, to devour them, and openly to have intercourse, not only with the other women, but also with their mothers and sisters; but I am saying this only with the understanding that I have no trustworthy witnesses for it; and yet, as for the matter of man-eating, that is said to be a custom of the Scythians also, and, in cases of necessity forced by sieges, the Celti, the Iberians, and several other peoples are said to have practiced it." [3]
  • Ulysses 077.33-34: "Rum idea: eating bits of a corpse why the cannibals cotton to it."

• cam: in engineering, a mechanical linkage which translates circular motion into linear motion

• Cam: the River Cam in Cambridge, England

• ballistics: the science of the motion, behavior, and effects of projectiles

• cannon balls

• ballista: an early form of crossbow
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• kami: (Japanese) divine

• cam: (Northern dialect) a ridge or mound, such as those which divide plots of land and on which are planted hedges. From the Scandinavian kame = "comb", "crest", "serrated ridge" → may be a reference to an Irish Neolithic tomb and mound-building cultures

• cam: (Welsh) crooked, bent, awry; wrong; (by extension) unorthodox

• Cambria: Latin name for Wales, derived from the Welsh Cymru = "Wales"
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• Cumbria: the ancient name for a region of northwest England (now a county, but only since 1974)
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