Camibalistics

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

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

• cannibal
  • Ulysses 077.33-34: "Rum idea: eating bits of a corpse why the cannibals cotton to it."

• cannon balls

• French baliste: a type of siege engine → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)

• ballista: an early form of crossbow

• Japanese kami: divine

• In northern dialect, a cam is a ridge or mound, such as those which divide plots of land and on which are planted hedges. From Scandinavian kame, "comb", "crest", "serrated ridge". May be a reference to Irish Mesolithic or Neolithic tomb- and mound-building cultures.

• Welsh cam: crooked, bent, awry, wrong, by extension "unorthodox"

• 'Cambria → Cumbria, derivative of Welsh Cymru, Wales.