CAMEL


Meaning of CAMEL in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a camel coat (= a thick pale brown coat made from wool, sometimes mixed with camel hair )

He wore a smart camel coat over his suit.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

break

There are many tales of madness overcoming travellers whose cars have broken down or whose camels have died.

ride

We visited the ancient city of Petra and rode camels .

Their deity, Goddess Vankul Mata ji, rides on a camel and specifically bequeathed the animal to them.

We rode our camels or walked alongside them covering between 20 and 30 kilometres a day.

He had ridden the camel all the way from the coast and was under the impression that they had become friends.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Achaemeniann foot guards, Parthian warriors, the cavalry of Xerxes, litters, chariots, tanks, Bactrian camels.

An Arab's flowing robes and racing camels gleamed white against the ochre dirt.

But Koju was, immutably, a driver and Chutra, immutably, a camel man.

One dehydrated camel drank 186 litres of water in two bouts of 94 and 92 litres.

Some days we passed other groups of Rabari with their strings of camels.

The camels were hobbled out to graze in the paddock.

They are camel breeders and were once quite well off.

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