1794, F. L. Count Stolberg, Travels in Holland, Switzerland, Italy and Sicily., page 539:
[…] but, should any one have the rashness to betray rebellious designs, we have sworn to tear him into as many pieces as we are persons, and we will each smoak a mammock of him in our pipes."
1829, William Blackwood, “Dibdin's Sea Songs; or, Scenes in the Gum-room.”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:
The studding-sail server for his hammock, With the clue-lines he bought him his call, While ensigns and Jacks in a mammock He sold to buy trinkets for Poll.
1853, Robert Snow, Notes and Queries: A medium of inter-communication:
Is not the phrase a corruption of beaten to a mammock, to a piece, to a scrap, to a fragment? […] The Gloucestershire peasants frequently use the word mammock, which they pronounce "mommock".
I saw him run after a gilded butterfly; and when he caught it, he let it go again; and after it again; and over and over he comes, and up again; catched it again: or whether his fall enraged him, or how ’twas, he did so set his teeth and tear it; O! I warrant, how he mammocked it!
to keep off the profane touch of the Laicks, whilst the obscene, and surfeted Priest scruples not to paw, and mammock the sacramentall bread, as familiarly as his Tavern Bisket
