English

Noun

cammock ‎(plural cammocks)

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

Derived terms

• cammocky

References

• cammock in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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.