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Quotation dates: 1522-1699
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Kaming-stok, -stock, n. Also: kame(i)n(g)-, -ying-, keaming-, keming-. [ME. kembyngstok (1418), e.m.E. kemynge stoke (1533).]A support to which carding- or rippling-combs were fixed. (Cf. kame-stok, Kame n. 2 b, and Kard(e n.1) — 1522 Dunferm. B. Rec. I. 209.
Ane pair of voll kamys, ane kamenstok 1533 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 451.
Ane pair of woll camis, ane pair of cardis, ane kameing [pr. kamery] stok 1569 Edinburgh Testaments 330.
Ane kamying stok, ane rypling came a1568 Jok & Jynny in Watson's Coll. iii. (1711) 47.
A keam but and a keaming stock 16.. The Wyf of Awchtirmwchty in Janet M. Templeton "Seventeenth-century Versions of Christis Kirk on the Grene and The Wyf of Awchtirmwchty" in Studies in Scottish Literature IV. iii. (1967) 139.
He fell backward into the fyre And clourd his croun on the keming stock
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