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Sailor's bed of yore
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hammock
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A hammock is a sling made of fabric, rope, or netting, suspended between two points, used for swinging , sleeping , or resting . It normally consists of one or more cloth panels, or a woven network of twine or thin rope stretched with ropes between two ...
Wiktionary
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n. 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 (context US archaic outside dialects English) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A clothes-line hangs between two high windows, hovering above like a tawdry hammock from the sky. ▪ At night, they sleep on hammocks in plastic-sheeting shelters or on the frigid, rain-soaked earth. ▪ Filled with relief, I got ...
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.