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Chammed vs Cammed - What's the difference?

chammed | cammed |

As verbs the difference between chammed and cammed

is that chammed is past tense of cham while cammed is past tense of cam.

chammed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cham)

    • cham

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) cham, from (etyl) (borrowed into Arabic, Persian, Mongolian etc.).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1840 , Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War?
    • But Baiothnoi, chief captain of the Tartarian army (for they were not admitted to speak with the great cham himself), cried quits with this friar, outvying him with the greatness and divinity of their cham; and sent back by them a blunt letter
  • An autocrat or dominant critic, especially .
  • * 1997': "Sitting at a table, drinking Ale, observing the Mist thro’ the Window-Panes, Mason forty-five, the '''Cham sixty-four." — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
  • * 2007': The Tonsons would publish Johnson's Shakespeare only by subscription, obliging the Great '''Cham to sell copies well ahead of publication — Michael Dobson, ‘For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen’, ''London Review of Books 29:9, p. 3

    • Etymology 2

    See chap.

    Verb

    (chamm)
  • (obsolete) To chew.
  • * 1531 , William Tyndale, Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue
    • But he that repenteth toward the law of God, and at the sight of the sacrament, or of the breaking, feeling, eating, chamming , or drinking, calleth to remembrance the death of Christ, his body breaking and blood shedding for our sins [...]

    Anagrams

    * ----

    cammed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cam)

    • cam

    English

    (CAM)

    Etymology 1

    Recorded since the 16th century, from (etyl) )

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
  • A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
  • (UK, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.
    • (Wright)
  • (rock climbing) A camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
    • Derived terms
    * overhead cam

    See also

    * ("cam" on Wikipedia)

    External links

    * climbing cam

    Etymology 2

    From (camera), from the first part of (etyl) (camera)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) camera
    • Derived terms
    * camcorder * camgirl * cammer * camwhore * dashcam * nanny cam * Steadicam * webcam * webcammer

    Verb

  • To go on webcam with someone

    • Etymology 3

    Adverb

    (en adverb)

    • External links

    *

    Anagrams

    * acm ----