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cam

Pronunciation: /kam/

“cam” is a Welsh word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

  1. step, pace, footstep
  2. footfall (sound made by a footstep)
  3. footprint
  4. step (of a process), stage, phase
  5. wrong, misdeed
  6. cam (a turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it)

adjective

  1. bent, crooked, distorted
  2. wrong, false, incorrect
  3. wrong, unjust
  4. one-eyed, squint-eyed

Etymology

From Middle Welsh cam, from Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kanxsman, from *kengeti.

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