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Definition of Hammock

1. Noun. A small natural hill.

2. Noun. A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily.

Definition of Hammock

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

Definition of Hammock

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

2. Noun. (US archaic) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hammock

1. a hanging cot [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hammock

1. 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. Hammock nettings, formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; now, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose. Origin: 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.". Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hammock

hammersmiths hammerspace hammerstone hammerstones hammertoe hammertoes hammier hammies hammiest hammily

hamminess hamminesses hamming hamming up hammochrysos hammock (current term) hammock bandage hammock ligament hammocked hammocking

hammocklike hammocks hammy hamose hamous hamper hampered hamperer hamperers hampering

Literary usage of Hammock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Soils and Agriculture of the Southern States by Hugh Hammond Bennett (1921)
"hammock lands of Florida and Georgia—Gainesville, Park- wood, and related soils.—This group of soils does not comprise all the lands that are classed as ..."

2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"Of the 41 cases which we have treated by the hammock operation, ... Colon in case 21, three and one-half years after "hammock" operation and nine and ..."

3. Among the Indians of Guiana: Being Sketches Chiefly Anthropologic from the by Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn (1883)
"These lengths of the thread form the longitudinal bars of the hammock. The cross-bars are then put in. Three reels, or shuttles, charged with cotton thread, ..."

4. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1908)
"SHADY tree—babbling brook, Girl in hammock—reading book. Golden curls—tiny feet, Girl in hammock—looks so sweet. Man rides past—big mustache, ..."

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