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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