The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CAMBER
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More clues leading to the result CAMBER
- Bank’s constant warning signal
- Automobile transporting New Year’s honour? It’s on the road
- Log lying across motorway bend
- Automobile award invested in bank
- Slight arch on East Sussex shore?
- Curve in road about to get warning sign
- Bank not in satisfactory position in London district
- Bank on black computer coming back
- Constant warning light for potentially adverse road condition
- Curve hard to miss in part of a legislature
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What does CAMBER mean?
CAMBER noun- A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.
- The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
- An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.
- The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.
- The curvature of an airfoil.
- A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.
- To curve upwards in the middle.
- To adjust the camber of the wheels of a vehicle.