rooked timber.

CAMP. The whole extent of ground on which an army pitches its tents and
lodges. (_See_ DECAMP.)

CAMP, OR CAMP-OUT, TO. In American travel, to rest for the night without
a standing roof; whether under a light tent, a screen of boughs, or any
makeshift that the neighbourhood may afford.

CAMPAIGN. A series of connected operations by an army in the field,
unbroken by its retiring into quarters.

CAMPAIGNER. A veteran soldier.

CAMP-EQUIPAGE. _See_ EQUIPAGE.

CAMPER. _See_ KEMP.

CAMPESON. _See_ GAMBISON.

CAMP-FIGHT. _See_ ACRE.

CAN. A tin vessel used by sailors to drink out of.

CANAICHE, OR CANASH. An inner port, as at Granada in the West Indies.

CANAL-BOAT. A barge generally towed by horses, but furnished with a
large square-sail for occasional use.

CAN-BODIES. The old term for anchor-buoys, now can-buoys.

CAN-BUOYS. Are in the form of a cone, and therefore would countenance
the term cone-buoys. They are floated over sands and other obstructions
in navigation, as marks to be avoided; they are made very large, to be
seen at a distance; where there are several, they are distinguished by
their colour, as black, red, white, or chequered; &c.

CANCELLED TICKET. One rendered useless by some subsequent arrangement or
clerk's error. In either case the word "cancelled" is to be written
across in large characters, and due record made. The corner cut off
cancels good character, yet they are a certificate for time.

CANCER. The Crab; the fourth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters
about the 21st of June, and commences the summer solstice.

CANDLE-BARK. A cylindrical tin box for candles.

CANE. The rattan (_Calamus rudentum_), is extensively used in the East
for rigging, rope, and cables. The latter have remained for years at the
bottom of the sea uninjured by teredo, or any destructive crustacea. The
cables, too, resist any but the sharpest axes, when used to connect logs
as booms, to stop the navigation of rivers.

CANEVAS. The old word for hempen canvas; but many races, even the
Chinese, make sails entirely of cane. The Americans frequently use
cotton, and term that cloth duck. In the islands of the South Pacific it
is made from the bark of various trees, grasses, &c.

CAN-HOOKS. They are used to sling a cask by the chimes, or ends of its
staves, and are formed by reeving the two ends of a piece of rope or
chain through the eyes of two flat hooks, and there making them fast.
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