Chewin in the Chung

37 damn years speaking this damn language, and I still run into all kinds of words I don't know. And I'm not talking about scientific stuff like gluon, which they allege is (and get this) a particle with no mass. And Kent wonders about The next generation of scientists and engineers- I think I've an inkling of the reason for the trend. I was finally beginning to understand that I was lied to in High school, and the atomic mass of Hydrogen is NOT 1, but 1.00794, and now they are trying to get me to fall for this massless particle nonsense.

Anyway, today's word that I did not know is:

camber
(Pronunciation Key)cam¡Pber
n.

a. A slightly arched surface, as of a road, a ship's deck, an airfoil, or a snow ski. b. The condition of having an arched surface.

A setting of automobile wheels in which they are closer together at the bottom than at the top.
intr. & tr.v. cam¡Pbered, cam¡Pber¡Ping, cam¡Pbers

To arch or cause to arch slightly.

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[From Middle English caumber, curved, from Old North French dialectal caumbre, from Latin camur, perhaps from Greek kamara, vault.]

So now I know. As do you.