camel

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  1. noun A humped, long-necked ruminant mammal of the genus Camelus, domesticated in Old World desert regions as a beast of burden and as a source of wool, milk, and meat.
  2. noun A device used to raise sunken objects, consisting of a hollow structure that is submerged, attached tightly to the object, and pumped free of water. Also called caisson.
  3. noun Sports A spin in figure skating that is performed in an arabesque or modified arabesque position.

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  • I think the camel is the best-designed animal in the world. " —  Keith Bellows on the camel's hump
  • There is nothing but truth in the remark made by one of our number: “Dr. Black's fall from the camel was the first step towards Pesth.” “Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord,” Psalm 107:42. —  The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne
  • Groth alluded to the old saw that "a camel is a horse designed by a committee." —  wacotrib - Latest News Headlines
  • I often like to say that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee; it ain't pretty and smells worse! —  Counterterrorism Blog
  • "Sitting on a camel was about as much as tourists in India could expect before this," said Jonathan Walter, one of two Delhi-based British entrepreneurs behind the scheme. —  Sawf News - Fashions
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  1. Middle English, from Old English and from Anglo-Norman cameil, both from Latin camēlus, from Greek kamēlos, of Semitic origin; see gml1 in Semitic roots.

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  1. Early modern English also cammel; from Middle English camel, kamel, also chamel, from Old French camel, chamel, French chameau = Provencal camel = Spanish camello = Portuguese camelo = Italian cammello = Old Northumbrian camel, camal (see Anglo-Saxon word below) = Dutch kameel = German kamel = Danish kamel = Swedish kamel = Icelandic kamell (rare) = Old Bulgarian Bulgarian Servian kamila = Hungarian gamila, from Latin camēlus, from Greek κάμηλος, masculine and feminine (New Greek κάμηλος, masculine, καμήλα, feminine), from Hebrew gāmāl = Arabic jamal, jemel = Coptic gamul, a camel. In the older Teutonic languages the camel was called by a name derived from that of the elephant: Gothic (Moesogothic) ulbandus = Old High German olbentā, Middle High German olbente = Anglo-Saxon olfend = Old Saxon olbhunt = Icelandic ūlfaldi, a camel.
 

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