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camels

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1. camels

   All large ships are built, at St. Petersburg, in a dockyard off the Granite Quay, where the water is shallow; therefore a number of camels or caissons are kept at Cronstadt, for the purpose of carrying them down the river. Camels are hollow cases of wood, constructed in two halves, so as to embrace the keel, and lay hold of the hull of a ship on both sides. They are first filled with water and sunk, in order to be fixed on. The water is then pumped out, when the vessel gradually rises, and the process is continued until the ship is enabled to pass over the shoal. Similar camels were used at Rotterdam about 1690.

Anagrams for camels »

1. mescal

2. mascle

How to pronounce camels?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of camels in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of camels in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of camels in a Sentence

1. Jeff Lowe:

   Were relocating approximately 200 cats and 200 other species -- camels, zebras, monkeys, wolves, bears, emus, itll be a full-blown zoo. Im stoked about getting down there.

2. Tariq Madani:

   We found out that 97 percent of the cases were healthcare associated, and 3 percent of them were primary cases who probably acquired the infection from contact with camels.

3. Luka Jurkovic:

   We will have to scale it up a bit as camels are obviously bigger.

4. Jeremy Morris:

   Jeremy Morris also uses the Christmas display to raise money for the families of cancer patients as well as a local organization that helps homeless children. It seems to me the homeowners association has a legitimate concern about crowds and traffic and livestock. But I suspect this has more to do with Christianity than camels. I live in the United States.

5. Tariq Madani:

   Until now the camels we have examined have proven to be negative -- and this is really very unexpected.

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