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cammok (plural cammoks)

the spiny restharrow, Ononis repens
- c. 1380, Piers Plowman:
  Kammokes & wedes Fouleth þe fruite in þe felde þere þei growe togyderes.
- a. 1400, Alphita, 25:
  Bulmago, resta bouis, uel retinens boues idem. gall. restebeof, anglice cammok uel ysenherde.
hog's fennel, sulphurweed, Peucedanum officinale
- a. 1400, Mirfeld Sinonoma, 33:
  Peucedona, i. cammoc.
the common buckthorn, Rhamnus catharticus
- a. 1400, John Trevisa's translation of Bartholomaeus's De Proprietatibus Rerum:
  The Cambmok [L Ramnus] hatte rampnus and is a wel hard tree.