a length of netting, canvas, etc. swung from ropes at both ends and used as a bed or couch
Origin of hammock
Spanish hamaca, of Arawakan origin, originally
A hammock on the beach.
The definition of a hammock is a canvas or rope bed that is hung between two trees or other supports.
A bed that is hung between two palm trees that you lounge in outside in your backyard or when you are on vacation is an example of a hammock.
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hammock
South a fertile, raised area with hardwood trees
Origin of hammock
variant, variety of hummockWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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hammock
noun
A hanging, easily swung length of canvas or heavy netting suspended between two trees or other supports and used as a seat or bed.
Origin of hammock
Spanish hamaca from Taínonoun
A tract of forested land that rises above an adjacent marsh in the southern United States.
Origin of hammock
Variant of hummockTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural hammocks)
- A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
- (US, archaic) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
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Sentence Examples
- Relaxation Gifts: Retirement is an era of relaxation and gifts such as a hammock, pillow, reclining deck chair, luxury robe, slippers or spa treatments help new retirees indulge right from the onset of their retirement.
- The hammock was universal in the tropics, and chairs of wood or stone.
- Sometimes we sat in the hammock, and teacher read to me.
- We sat in the hammock; but there was no rest for the weary there.
- Danh-gbi has numerous wives, who until 1857 took part in a public procession from which the profane crowd was excluded; a python was carried round the town in a hammock, perhaps as a ceremony for the expulsion of evils.
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