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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)

  1. The spiny restharrow (Ononis spinosa subsp. maritima, syn. Ononis spinosa), a plant with long, hard, crooked roots.
  2. 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)

  1. 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.