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Hammock vs Cammock - What's the difference?

hammock | cammock |

As nouns the difference between hammock and cammock

is that hammock is a swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends while cammock is the spiny restharrow, ononis spinosa , a plant with long, hard, crooked roots or cammock can be a crooked stick, staff or club.

hammock

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
  • * 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
    • ...the poore ?aylers, who...commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes ) re?ting their tyred bodies...
  • (US, archaic) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.

    • Derived terms

    * hammock nettings (Nautical ) formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; later, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "hammock")

    cammock

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , from (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The spiny restharrow, Ononis spinosa , a plant with long, hard, crooked roots.
  • Venus' needle, Scandix pecten-veneris .
    • References
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m); see (m) for more.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A crooked stick, staff or club.
  • * 1578 , John Lyly, Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit :
    • 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.