Dictionary - Definition of CAMMOCK


Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)		Top

"Cammock" is a common misspelling or typo for: Hammock, Cam mock, Commack.

Date "Cammock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references)

Note: Cammock \Cam"mock\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression cammoc.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: CAMMOCK

Domain	Definition
Literature	1: Cammock As crooked as a cammock. The cammock is a piece of timber bent for the knee of a ship; a hockey-stick; a shinny-club. (Anglo-Saxon.) 2: "Though the cammock, the more it is bowed the better it is; yet the bow, the more it is bent the weaker it waxeth." - Lily. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.		Top


Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)		Top

Date "CAMMOCK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references)

Note: Cammock \Cam"mock\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression cammoc.]. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	1: Cammock As crooked as a cammock. The cammock is a piece of timber bent for the knee of a ship; a hockey-stick; a shinny-club. (Anglo-Saxon.) 2: "Though the cammock, the more it is bowed the better it is; yet the bow, the more it is bent the weaker it waxeth." - Lily. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.		Top