HAMMOCK

hammock, sack

(noun) a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily

knoll, mound, hillock, hummock, hammock

(noun) a small natural hill

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

hammock (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, outside, dialects) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.

Verb

hammock (third-person singular simple present hammocks, present participle hammocking, simple past and past participle hammocked)

(intransitive) To lie in a hammock.

(transitive, of a cloth) To hang in a way that resembles a hammock.

(transitive) To make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.

Proper noun

Hammock (plural Hammocks)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hammock is the 4877^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7222 individuals. Hammock is most common among White (81.79%) and Black/African American (12.66%) individuals.

Source: Wiktionary

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Ham"mock, n. Etym: [A word of Indian origin: cf. Sp. hamaca. 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."]

1. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.

2. A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land. [Southern U. S.] Bartlett. Hammock nettings (Naut.), formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; now, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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