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cummock

cummock is the alternative form 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

Forms of cummock

pluralcummocks

Questions about cummock

What is cummock the alternative form of?
Cummock is the alternative form of cammock.

Words near cummock in the dictionary

  1. cummingtonites
  2. cummingtonitic
  3. Cummins
  4. Cummiskey
  5. Cummiskeys
  6. cummock
  7. cummocks
  8. cummy
  9. Cumnock
  10. Cumnor
  11. cumomer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cummock (page history and authors); cammock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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