Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of steam-boiler, of large water-capacity, in which a second drum or shell is placed over the principal one, somewhat as is done in an elephant-boiler.
- noun A form of locomotive engine in which the fire-box has an unusual width so as to secure a low rate of combustion per square foot of grate. The engineer's cab has to be placed in front of the fire-box, and is somewhat in the same relative position on the boiler as is the hump of the camel on its back.
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Examples
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Can I get some of these in a camel-back configuration?
Beer in a pouch doesn't add metallic tastes, easy to fill | DVICE 2009
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Stops include Alice Springs -- among the options is a tour on camel-back -- and Katherine, with a chance to take a helicopter ride over the sandstone cliffs of Katherine Gorge.
All Aboard 2009
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Their journey on camel-back through the Sudanese desert is treacherous.
Archive 2008-09-01 legatus hedlius 2008
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Their journey on camel-back through the Sudanese desert is treacherous.
New novel about the Sudan War coming out legatus hedlius 2008
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[49] It was a useful arm, certainly, but no gallant gentleman would dream of breeding camels for his own use or learning to fight on camel-back.
Cyropaedia 2007
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Stent, who had succeeded Ross in command of the Arabian flight, sent me up by air; so we crossed comfortably at sixty miles an hour the hills learned toilsomely on camel-back.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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They had been months up country, rail-cutting, from Wejh, and might fairly be assumed to have become experts on camel-back, fit for the forced marches in prospect.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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Sinai, and fowls, corn, and vegetables from the Sharkiyah province; fruit is supplied by Cairo as well as by the Sharkiyah, and wheat conveyed down the Nile in flood to the capital is carried on camel-back across the Desert.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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(Saladin) who, in A.D. 1167, cleared his country of the Infidel invader by carrying ships on camel-back from Cairo.
The Land of Midian 2003
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I lost all patience with Wellsted,217 whose blunders concerning the Umm el-Karáyát are really surprising, even for a sailor on camel-back.
The Land of Midian 2003
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