Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A leguminous plant, the rest-harrow, Ononis arvensis.
- noun An umbelliferous plant, probably the shepherd's-needle, Scandix Pecten.
- noun A crooked stick or club; a crooked beam; specifically, a crooked club used in the game of hockey or shinny.
- noun The game played with such a club; hockey or shinny.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the
Ononis spinosa ; -- called alsorest-harrow . TheScandix Pecten-Veneris is also calledcammock .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Ononis spinosa, the
restharrow , aplant with long hard, crookedroots . - noun Scandix pecten-veneris, the wild chervil.
Etymologies
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Anglo-Saxon cammoc.
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Examples
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Early crooks the tree, that good cammock should be.
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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