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Webster 1913 Edition
Cammock
Cam′mock
,Noun.
[AS.
cammoc
.] (Bot.)
A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the
Ononis spinosa
; – called also rest-harrow
. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris
is also called cammock
. Definition 2024
cammock
cammock
English
Noun
cammock (plural cammocks)
- The spiny restharrow (Ononis spinosa subsp. maritima, syn. Ononis spinosa), a plant with long, hard, crooked roots.
- Venus' comb (Scandix pecten-veneris).
Derived terms
References
- cammock in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Etymology 2
From Middle English camboke; see cambuca for more.
Noun
cammock (plural cammocks)
- A crooked stick, staff or club.
- 1578, John Lyly, Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit:
- For, say they, although iron the more it is used the brighter it is, yet silver with much wearing doth waste to nothing; though the cammock the more it is bowed the better it serveth, yet the bow the more it is bent and occupied the worse it waxeth.
- 1578, John Lyly, Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit: