1892 Ann. Rep. Chief of Ordnance to Secretary of War (U.S.) 184 The final compression of the spring and seating of the cartridge is accomplished by the camming of the locking lug in the cut in the receiver as the handle is turned down.

1910 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 18 Jan. 694/1 A camming mechanism acting in conjunction with the feed roll.

1977 R. Bridge Climbing: Guide Mountaineering vii. 147 Some nuts are shaped in such a way that they can be placed in a ‘camming’ position, so that pulling on the sling tends to rotate the nut and lock it more tightly.

1997 D. Mellor Rock Climbing 106 Don't let the camming unit ‘umbrella’ in a crack that's too wide: it has no holding power.

2006 Oecologia 148 712/1 Stems of the plants were anchored in holes drilled in the boards by the camming action of inverted rubber stoppers.

1911 U.S. Patent 1,011,997 3/1 In a cash register..springs holding the actuating devices in contact with the camming devices.

1978 Off Belay June 6/1 Friends are a rational development in a long line of camming devices... After five years of testing in Yosemite, they could now become the next generation of climbing protection.

1994 J. Cinnamon Climbing Rock & Ice vii. 90/2 A wonderful, innovative passive camming device, the Lowe Tricam works in flares too small for most spring-loaded cams.

2007 Climb Mag. May 20/2 A camming device thrown slightly too tightly into a crack in a moment of stress can ease the anxiety of the leader but may require two hands and a lot of effort to retrieve.

2014 Sustainable Materials & Technol. 1–2 38 (caption) Detail view of a pulley segment with a camming device.

1991 BBC Wildlife July 484/2 A good tripod is quite simply essential to acceptable camming. Without it your shots will be shaky.

1999 E. Parker Little Web Cam Bk. ii. 33 Camming on the 'Net requires using your cam and your modem at the same time.

2003 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 31 Aug. 12 A full 70% of his clients fire their nannies after just one day of camming.

2008 L. M. Ponte in R. Bird et al. Global Challenge Intellect. Prop. Rights iv. 65 The industry could help prevent camming in US theaters and root out the main source of supply of pirated films.

1998 Age (Melbourne) 19 June 18/4 The couples call it ‘camming’: they attach a video camera to their computer and transmit images of themselves having sex live to other couples, who return the favor.

2000 alt.fan.jennicam 6 Aug. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 13 Jan. 2021) I am currently writing a Ph.D. dissertation..on female webcammers... I'm getting tired of watching mainstream press only focus on the freakshow elements of camming.

2020 A. Jones Camming ii. 54 Initially the camming industry was different from the traditional porn industry.