# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/cam
### cam

* 針cam1516715
* A needle; a pin; a lancet; to puncture.

#### chng cam;

    thread a needle.

#### bûa cam;

    polish a needle.

#### cò̤ cam;

    make needles.

#### tōa cam, jī cam, saⁿ cam, cam kíaⁿ;

    large, medium sized, fine, and very fine needles.

#### tōa kong cam;

    a darning needle.

#### hue cam;

    an embroidery needle.

#### cam khang, cam búe;

    the eye and the point of a needle.

#### cam phīⁿ;

    the end of a needle opposite the point.

#### cam kha khah hi;

    the stitches are too long.

#### tîeh bâk cam cē;

    you must sew it more finely.

#### cí kâi hŭ-jîn hó̤ cam-cí;

    this woman is a good sewer.

#### ​hâng-sú-cam;

    a thermometer.

#### huang-hŏ-cam;

    a barometer.

#### sî-ceng cam;

    the hands of a clock.

#### pang-cam; thng-sî cam;

    the pin used to fasten the coiffure.

#### jû cŏ̤ cam-ciⁿ;

    as if sitting on needles.

#### ēng cam lâi thie tīo i kâi hueh;

    get a lancet and bleed him.

#### cam huap;

    the rules for acupuncture.

#### cêk cam kìⁿ hueh;

    one puncture brought the blood.

#### cam kù;

    to probe.

#### cam-tùi;

    point to point.

#### cam-tùi móng nâng tàⁿ;

    it refers to what a certain person said.

#### thih póiⁿ bûa cîaⁿ sìu-hue cam;

    an iron ferule may be ground down into an embroidery needle.
* 簪cam94511812
* To stick in the hair, or hat.

#### cam hue;

    to put flowers in the hair.

#### cam ēng;

    to put a tassel into a cap.

#### hue cam, hue lúi;

    sprays and flowers, used as head ornaments.
* 斬cám12697
* To sever; to sunder; to chop off; to cut.

#### cám châ;

    to cut wood.

#### cám khui;

    to sunder.

#### cám tīo;

    chop it off.

#### cám thâu;

    to behead.

#### cám chīu lîah cío;

    to cut down the tree in order to catch the bird.

#### cám cò̤ nŏ̤ kûeh;

    cut it in two.

#### ēng pó-thâu cìaⁿ hó̤ cám;

    take an axe and then you can chop it off.

#### cám cháu tṳ̂ kṳn;

    to cut down the weeds and extirpate their roots; to wholly exterminate; to cut off all one's posterity.

#### cám teng côih thih;

    to cut off a nail.

#### cám síu sī cèng;

    to decapitate as a warning to others; to make an oxample of.

#### kìe cám cŭe;

    a capital crime.

#### kam cám kuaⁿ;

    a sheriff.

#### cám, ká, kun, lîu, thû, sĭ ngŏ īeⁿ hêng huap;

    beheading, hanging, sending into the army, temporary banishment, and perpetual banishment, are the five methods of punishment.
* 譖càm94714916
* To slander or vilify.

#### càm-cǹg;

    to defame.

#### i hàuⁿ càm-cǹg nâng;

    he is addicted to slandering people.

#### càm-cǹg kùe lâi, càm-cǹg kùe khṳ̀;

    backbiting each the other.
* 鏨căm94616711
* A fine chisel; a graving tool; to chisel out; to engrave.

#### căm kíaⁿ;

    a graving tool.

#### căm hue;

    to grave flowers.

#### căm khṳ̀ hue-cháu ngía căi;

    the carving was beautifully done.

#### căm lâi hue-jī m̄ hīn;

    the letters are are not plainly cut.

#### tîeh căm chim cē;

    they must be cut deeper.

#### khah tōiⁿ, căm m̄ lô̤h;

    the stuff is too hard, it cannot be chiseled out.

#### ngṳ̂n căm;

    chasing on silver.

#### căm hue kâi nâng;

    the graver.

#### màiⁿ căm khih khṳ̀;

    do not break it in chiseling it.

#### cîeh căm;

    a stone-cutter's chisel.

#### cía khang tîeh căm khuah cē, cìaⁿ tàu tit lô̤h;

    this hole must be cut larger, so the plug will go in.

#### căm chùi cē;

    cut it more delicately.
* 站căm131175
* A stage of a journey.

#### îah căm;

    the distance between post houses.

#### cêk căm lō;

    one stage of a journey.

#### tŏ̤ cí-kò̤ kàu hṳ́-kò̤ ŭ kúi căm lō̤?

    How many stages from here there?

#### lō-căm àiⁿ cò̤-nî pheⁿ-phah?

    What route have you decided upon?

#### thâu căm kàu tī-kò̤?

    What is the first stopping place?

#### jī căm kàu hṳ́-kò̤;

    that will be the second stopping place on the route.