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单词 cambren
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cambrenn.

Etymology: < Welsh cambren, a combination of cam crooked + pren wood, stick, applied in Wales both to the butcher's cambrel, and to the swingle-tree used when one horse is yoked in front of another. (The latter in Anglesea is called bombren.)
Obsolete. rare.
= cambrel n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > hook or frame for hanging meat
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Cambren, a crooked stick, which Butchers use to hang a Sheep or Calf on, when they dress them.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Cambren, a crooked Stick with Notches on it, on which Butchers hang their meat.
1731–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Cambren, Cambrel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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