camelbacked

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From camel +‎ backed.

Adjective[edit]

camelbacked (comparative more camelbacked, superlative most camelbacked)

  1. Having a back like a camel's; humpbacked.
    • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Tartarians Alienated from the Christians; Bendocdar Tyrannizeth over Them, and Lewis King of France Setteth Forth again for to Succour Them”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: [] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 215:
      With Edward [I of England] went his brother Edmund Earl of Lancaſter, ſurnamed Crouch-back; not that he was crook-ſhouldered, or camel-backed: [] but from the Croſſe, anciently called a Crouch (whence Crouched Friars) which now he wore in his voyage to Jeruſalem.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “camelbacked”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)