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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English cammok (“Ononis repens; Peucedanum officinale; Rhamnus cathartica”), from Old English cammoc.
Noun
cammock (countable and uncountable, plural cammocks)
- A common restharrow (Ononis spinosa subsp. maritima, syn. Ononis spinosa), a plant with long, hard, crooked roots.
- A Venus comb (Scandix pecten-veneris).
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Etymology 2
From Middle English camboke; see cambuca for more.
Noun
cammock (plural cammocks)
- 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.