[Derivation and proper spelling uncertain; if the 17th-c. camp-shot (see next) is the original form, it would appear that camp-shotting has been variously corrupted to -shutting, -sheeting, -sheathing, -shedding.] Collective form of CAMP-SHOT.
1819. Rees, Cycl., Camp sheeting, camp shot, or campstead, in inland navigation denotes a facing of piles and planks in the front of banks or wharfs, to prevent the banks being worn away.
1858. Kingsley, Chalk-stream Stud., Misc. I. 182. There is a campshutting (a boarding in English) upon which you can put your elbows.
1862. H. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, III. 201. The old gentleman … moved slowly down along the camp-shuting…. Then the lad … slipped over the camp-shooting (will anybody tell me how to spell that word? Camps-heading won’t do, my dear sir, all things considered).
1865. Bazalgette, Metropol. Drainage, 25. A channel is cut in the bed of the river … the sides protected by campsheathing.
1872. Taunt, Map Thames, 13. The old weir, with its broken campsheding.
