Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cammock

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cam-mock
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A common restharrow (Ononis spinosa subsp. maritima, syn. Ononis spinosa), a plant with long, hard, crooked roots.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A Venus comb (Scandix pecten-veneris).

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A crooked stick, staff or club.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From Middle English cammok (“Ononis repens; Peucedanum officinale; Rhamnus cathartica”), from Old English cammoc.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: cammok, cammoc, camboke

Usage

Inflected Forms

cammocks (plural)

Derived Forms

cammocky

Questions

What does cammock mean?: A common restharrow (Ononis spinosa subsp. maritima, syn. Ononis spinosa), a plant with long, hard, crooked roots.
Where does cammock come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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