cammock

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Early crooks the tree, that good cammock should be.

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  1. A leguminous plant, the rest-harrow, Ononis arvensis. Cammokes and wedes Fouleth the fruite in the felde. Piers Plowman (B), xix. 309.
  2. An umbelliferous plant, probably the shepherd's-needle, Scandix Pecten.
  3. A crooked stick or club; a crooked beam; specifically, a crooked club used in the game of hockey or shinny. 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. Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 46. Crokyd as a camoke. Skelton (ed. Dyce), I. 117. Airlie crooks the tree, that good cammok should be. Ray, Proverbs (ed. 1678), p. 361.
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  1. English dial. also cambuck, kambuck; from Middle English cammok, from Anglo-Saxon cammoc, cammocc, cammuc, commuc (also once cammoce, perhaps miswritten for cammocc), a plant, glossed peucedanum.
  2. English dial, and Scots; English dial. also cambuck, Scots camack; from Middle English cambok (Middle Latin cambuca, cambuta, cambutta), of Celtic origin. Cf. Gaelic camag, anything crooked or curved, a club, crook, curl, bay, etc.; cf. equivalent Scots cammon, from Gaelic Irish caman, a club for golf or cricket, from cam, crooked, bent: see cam.
 

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