The part of a dockyard where cambering is performed, and timber kept. Also, a small dock in the royal yards, for the convenience of loading and discharging timber. Also, anything that curves upwards.
♦ To camber, to curve ship-planks.
·vi To curve upward. II. Camber ·vt To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with a...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Keel slightly arched upwards in the middle of the length, but not actually hogged. ...
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