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cammock

cammock noun: a common restharrow (Ononis spinosa subsp. maritima, syn. Ononis spinosa), a plant with long, hard, crooked roots.

Noun (1)

cammock (countable and uncountable, plural cammocks)

  1. A common restharrow (Ononis spinosa subsp. maritima, syn. Ononis spinosa), a plant with long, hard, crooked roots.
  2. A Venus comb (Scandix pecten-veneris).

Noun (2)

cammock (plural cammocks)

  1. A crooked stick, staff or club.
    • 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

Forms of cammock

pluralcammocks

Origin of cammock

From Middle English cammok (“Ononis repens; Peucedanum officinale; Rhamnus cathartica”), from Old English cammoc.

From Middle English camboke; see cambuca for more.

Words formed from cammock

Questions about cammock

What does cammock mean?
Cammock means a common restharrow (Ononis spinosa subsp. maritima, syn. Ononis spinosa), a plant with long, hard, crooked roots.
What part of speech is cammock?
Cammock is a noun.
What is the plural of cammock?
The plural of cammock is cammocks.

Words near cammock in the dictionary

  1. Cammi
  2. Cammie
  3. cammies
  4. camming
  5. camming out
  6. cammock
  7. cammocks
  8. cammocky
  9. Cammon
  10. Cammons
  11. Cammorata

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