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* '''Cambria:''' Latin name for Wales, derived from the Welsh ''Cymru'' = "Wales" | * '''Cambria:''' Latin name for Wales, derived from the Welsh ''Cymru'' = "Wales" | ||
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* '''Cumbria:''' the ancient name for a region of northwest England (now a county, but only since 1974) | * '''Cumbria:''' the ancient name for a region of northwest England (now a county, but only since 1974) | ||
Revision as of 15:38, 5 April 2010
- 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
- cannibal: someone who eats human flesh
- Ulysses 077.33-34: "Rum idea: eating bits of a corpse why the cannibals cotton to it."
- cannon balls
- baliste: (French) a type of siege engine → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)
- ballista: an early form of crossbow
- 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"
- Cumbria: the ancient name for a region of northwest England (now a county, but only since 1974)
