Camibalistics

• 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
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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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