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cammocks

cammocks is the plural of cammock.

Meaning of cammock

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

Questions about cammocks

What is cammocks the plural of?
Cammocks is the plural of cammock.

Words near cammocks in the dictionary

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

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