Meaning of cammock | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A common restharrow (Ononis spinosa subsp. maritima, syn. Ononis spinosa), a plant with long, hard, crooked roots.
   countable, uncountable
2. A crooked stick, staff or club.
3. A Venus comb (Scandix pecten-veneris).
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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