Meanings
cammock1
plural cammocks
- countableuncountableA common restharrow (Ononis spinosa subsp. maritima, syn. Ononis spinosa), a plant with long, hard, crooked roots.
- countableuncountableA Venus comb (Scandix pecten-veneris).
cammock2
plural cammocks
- 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
Origin
cammock · noun
- Old Englishcammoc
- Middle Englishcammok“Ononis repens; Peucedanum officinale; Rhamnus cathartica”
- Englishcammock
From Middle English cammok (“Ononis repens; Peucedanum officinale; Rhamnus cathartica”), from Old English cammoc.
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Full word history & related roots →cammock · noun
- Middle Englishcamboke
- Englishcammock
From Middle English camboke; see cambuca for more.
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