Hammock Definition

hămək
hammocks
noun
hammocks
A length of netting, canvas, etc. swung from ropes at both ends and used as a bed or couch.
Webster's New World
A fertile, raised area with hardwood trees.
Webster's New World
(US, archaic) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
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Noun

Singular:
hammock
Plural:
hammocks

Origin of Hammock

  • From Spanish hamaca, from Taino. Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage, says: “A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep.”

    From Wiktionary

  • Spanish hamaca from Taíno

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Hammock Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • The hammock was covered with pine needles, for it had not been used while my teacher was away.

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Words Starting With

HHAHAM

Words Ending With

KCKOCK

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