cammock1 (kam ok)

[E. dial. also cambuck, kambuck; Cammokes and wedes Fouleth the fruite in the felde. Piers Plowman (B), xix. 309, 21. An umbelliferous plant, probably the shepherd's-needle, Scandix Pecten. cammock (kam'ok), n. [E. dial. and Sc.; E. dial. also cambuck, Sc. camack; 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), 1. 117. Airlie crooks the tree, that good cammok should be. Ray, Proverbs (ed. 1678), p. 361. cammock 2. The game played with such a club; hockey or shinny. cammocky (kam'ok-i), a. [E. dial.,