Hammock
['hæmək]
Definition
(noun.) a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily.
Edited by Juanita--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
(n.) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land.
Checker: Rupert
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Swinging bed.
Editor: Sallust
Definition
n. a piece of strong cloth or netting suspended by the corners and used as a bed by sailors.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
From the Lat. hamus, hook, and Grk. makar, happy. Happiness on hooks. Also, a popular contrivance whereby love-making may be suspended but not stopped during the picnic season.
Typed by Alphonse
Examples
- The first jolt had like to have shaken me out of my hammock, but afterward the motion was easy enough. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I must have been sound asleep in the hammock. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I found myself not very well, and told the page that I had a mind to take a nap in my hammock, which I hoped would do me good. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- An arrangement is made similar to a hammock, which is attached to the back of the cabinet, and is then affixed to a false wooden bust made to fit the bust of the lady. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Peeping through the meshes of the hammock, he saw the Marches coming out, as if bound on some expedition. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Some time after he was in his hammock that night, I heard him myself repeat to Ham, 'Poor thing! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Ten loaded hammocks retarded its pace. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The prize crew soon had the vessel under proper sail once more and the living members of the ill-starred company carried below to their hammocks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The laborers and their families sleep in hammocks or on matting on the floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The two hammocks swing differently. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They carried bedding and hammocks, the latter for transporting their sick and wounded. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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