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Answer for the clue "Hanging cloth bed ", 7 letters:
hammock

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Word definitions for hammock in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, alteration of hamaca (1550s), from Spanish hamaca , from Arawakan (Haiti) word apparently meaning "fish nets" (compare Yukuna hamaca , Taino amaca ).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small natural hill [syn: knoll , mound , hillock , hummock ] a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swing easily [syn: sack ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hammock is a term used in the southeastern United States for stands of trees, usually hardwood , that form an ecological island in a contrasting ecosystem . Hammocks grow on elevated areas, often just a few inches high, surrounded by wetlands that are too ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hammock \Ham"mock\ (h[a^]m"m[o^]k), n. [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, ...

Usage examples of hammock.

The most they can manage is a sort of diagonal slouch: feet on the floor, necks bent up against the bulkhead, Acton cradling her like a living hammock.

Mr Adams on the other hand was all agasp and aswim, obliged to be sponged in a hammock under the weatherawnings, and Mrs Homer lost her looks entirely, going yellow and thin.

If Slysaw Bander had eternal life, clone or no clone, I would not sleep soundly in my hammock anywhere in this chasm or, it may be, in this world.

Across the way, Tagwen was looking similarly disoriented, staring blankly into space from his hammock, eyes bleary and unfocused.

The women do most of the work, while their lazy lords drink up the chicha and swing in their hammocks, or possibly do a little hunting.

The Three Mulla-Mulgars and The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit and The Book of Three, Elidor and The Moon of Gomrath, Five Children and It, and Half Magic and Over Sea, Under Stone -- the kind of book that could distill an entire summer into a few hundred pages, the kind of book that can still summon up memories of hammocks and peach ice cream and the scent of lilacs, even if you actually first read them in a damp attic room smelling of wet sheetrock and ant traps.

He swung off the hammock and reached for his dressing gown, but Jama twitched the silk garment off the chair back.

Then the child was firmly gestured toward her hammock, and Keo without orders tumbled onto a bunk.

It became clear that this had an additional benefit when Bowyer invited Kydd to climb into his hammock for the first time.

With fatigue closing in on him in waves, Kydd stumbled over to his hammock.

When the day dawned our hearts were gladdened because Lisbon was no longer in sight, and as we were in need of rest I laid down on a seat, while the count got into a hammock, neither of us troubling to undress.

The productions of the country are cacao, sarsaparilla, Brazil nuts, bast for caulking vessels, copaiba balsam, India-rubber, salt fish, turtle-oil, manati, grass hammocks, and tiles.

The youngsters sling their hammocks by the breadroom, and they used to mess with the gunner until he took so poorly.

A tiny swell of breast, ribs I could count, one, two, three, four, five, and the smooth concavity of my stomach, slung like a hammock between the uprights of my hipbones.

I perceived that I was hungry, and prepared to clamber out of the hammock, which, very politely anticipating my intention, twisted round and deposited me upon all-fours on the floor.