cammock

English

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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).

Derived terms

• cammocky

References

• “cammock”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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.