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▪ I. campshed, n., ˈcampshot|ˈkæmpʃɪd, ˈkæmpʃɔt| Also 5 camshide 6 cambshide, 6–7 camshed(d, 7, 9 campshead. [Etymology unknown. campshot has been conjectured to be Du. or Flem. with second element = schot ‘boarding’, as in wain-scot; *kant-schot would be ‘side-boarding’; but no trace of this or any similar compound is found in these langs. The thing is well known there, and called schoeiing i.e. ‘shoeing’. The second element of the apparently earlier form campshed is probably, however, shide n.] A facing of piles and boarding along the bank of a river, or at the side of an embankment, to protect the bank from the action of the current, or to resist the out-thrust of the embankment.
1471in P. E. Jones Calendar Of Plea & Memoranda Rolls 1458–82 (1961) 70 A tenement..at ende of vj fote of Assise from the Camshide and north-west Corner of the said wharf. 1531in Lett. & Pap. Hen. VIII (1880) V. 183, 2 sawiers strangers, sawing with the sawers of the ordinary waigis, as nedylles, bynders, anckers, camp shedes, grete postes, planckes, and other necesares for the new frame of the est juttye. 1570in Crt. Min. Surrey & Kent Sewers Comm. (1909) 85 To fill and to planke iiij roddes of the Cambshide againste the Thames. 1622Admir. Crt. Misc. 1420, lf. 16 (MS.), The end of three piles at the topp of yt [sc. the wharf] are out of the campshead. 1632in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1887) 301 The making of Wharfes Camshedds Cranes and bridges of timber. 1691T. H[ale] New Invent. p. lxxi, Surveyors assured me that under St. Magnus Church they after the Fire met with an old Campshot and Wharfing, gain'd from the Thames, and..that there were found Campshots much further from the Thames in digging of Cellars. 1841Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. IV. 106/1 These piles are placed from 3 to 4 feet apart from centre to centre, and have a capping or campshead 7 inches square. 1867F. Francis Angling i. (1880) 61 note, ‘The campshot’, as it is termed on the Thames, is the wooden boarding and piling that keeps up the bank of the river. 1888Times 26 Mar. 4 The starting boats were moored in mid-stream at Putney opposite the end of the campshed on the Fulham side. ▪ II. ˈcampshed, v. [see campshed n.] trans. To face (the bank of a river or the side of an embankment) with piles and planks.
1882Daily News 2 Oct. 6/2 The Richmond Vestry..camp-shedded and otherwise improved it [the eyot below Richmond Bridge]. 1882Globe 2 Oct. 7/2. |