Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A leguminous plant, the rest-harrow, Ononis arvensis.
- n. An umbelliferous plant, probably the shepherd's-needle, Scandix Pecten.
- n. A crooked stick or club; a crooked beam; specifically, a crooked club used in the game of hockey or shinny.
- n. The game played with such a club; hockey or shinny.
Wiktionary
- n. Ononis spinosa, the restharrow, a plant with long hard, crooked roots.
- n. Scandix pecten-veneris, the wild chervil.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also
rest-harrow . The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also calledcammock .
Etymologies
- Anglo-Saxon cammoc. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Early crooks the tree, that good cammock should be.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cammock’.
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End in -ock
Inspired by fbharjo (see spitchcock).
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List of items never for sale on craigslist.
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Grounded Words
an Eckhartian exercise of grinding
grind, grist, refrain, ground, grit, mitochondrion, groats, grout, gruel, great, gruesome, gravel and 162 more...
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