A Scottish dialectal term for a crooked or bent object, particularly a curved piece of wood used as a tool or walking stick.
From Scottish Gaelic or Northern English dialect; possibly related to 'crumb' or words describing curves and bends, though the exact origin is unclear and may be onomatopoetic in nature.
Rural dialects like Scottish preserve words for hyper-specific tools that urban people never needed—a cummock was probably everyday vocabulary for farmers and craftspeople, but it nearly vanished from English when people stopped doing those jobs.
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