cammok

Middle English

Noun

cammok (plural cammoks)

  1. the spiny restharrow, Ononis repens
    • c. 1380, Piers Plowman:
      Kammokes & wedes Fouleth þe fruite in þe felde þere þei growe togyderes.
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    • a. 1400, Alphita, section 25:
      Bulmago, resta bouis, uel retinens boues idem. gall. restebeof, anglice cammok uel ysenherde.
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  2. hog fennel, sulphurwort, Peucedanum officinale
    • a. 1400, Mirfeld Sinonoma, section 33:
      Peucedona, i. cammoc.
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  3. the common buckthorn, Rhamnus catharticus
    • a. 1400, John Trevisa's translation of Bartholomaeus's De Proprietatibus Rerum:
      The Cambmok [L Ramnus] hatte rampnus and is a wel hard tree.
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