camelbacked

English

Etymology

From camel +‎ backed.

Adjective

camelbacked (comparative more camelbacked, superlative most camelbacked)

1. Having a back like a camel's; humpbacked.
   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Tartarians Alienated from the Christians; Bendocdar Tyrannizeth over Them, and Lewis King of France Setteth Forth again for to Succour Them”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 215:

     With Edward [I of England] went his brother Edmund Earl of Lancaſter, ſurnamed Crouch-back; not that he was crook-ſhouldered, or camel-backed: […] but from the Croſſe, anciently called a Crouch (whence Crouched Friars) which now he wore in his voyage to Jeruſalem.

References

• “camelbacked”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.