What is "hammocks"

Usage examples of "hammocks".

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

The bos'n and his mates were busy sewing the dead men into hammocks ready for funerals at daybreak, with the gunner cursing that it was going to be a waste of roundshot until Ramage pointed out that there was plenty in the schooners, and it was more appropriate that Frenchmen should be buried at sea with French roundshot sewn into the foot of their hammocks.

He turned to the rail, unencumbered by hammocks at this time of day, and looked at the merchantmen they were all there, straggling over not too vast an area of sea, and what be had taken for a far stern lantern or an uncommonly big top-light was old Saturn, low on the horizon and tangled in their rigging .

So with an average of twenty hammocks to a row, we get them all in, in spite of the mast.

A ball burst through the packed hammock-netting, crossed a few feet in front of him, struck an iron netting-crane and lost its force on the hammocks the other side - an eight-pounder, he noticed, as it rolled towards him.

But the Gloire was having none of it: as though warned by an inner voice, her captain had put up his helm within five seconds of the Sophie's doing so, and now, with the smoke clearing again, Jack, standing by the larboard hammocks, saw him at his taffrail, a small trim grizzled man a hundred and fifty yards away, looking fixedly back.

He turned to the rail, unencumbered by hammocks at this time of day, and looked at the merchantmen they were all there, straggling over not too vast an area of sea, and what be had taken for a far stern lantern or an uncommonly big top-light was old Saturn, low on the horizon and tangled in their rigging.

But then at last we were in luck, and came to a hall where hammocks hung unoccupied, and we went inside and slept.

The hammocks were large enough for two people, so, remembering what had passed between us earlier, I suggested a little wistfully to Amelia that we would be warmer if we shared a hammock.

Several of the hammocks had been moved away, and all the slaves were sitting on the floor.

We were being propelled steadily and firmly towards Amelia's private quarters, and as we came to where the hammocks had been slung to form the partition, the noise reached its climax.

The siting of this, and the hammocks on which we would sleep, was rather puzzling, for they had been hung from the ceiling, some eighty feet above our heads.

As he went through the door in the bulkhead which divided off the officers' and warrant officers' accommodation from the forward part of the ship where the seamen slung their hammocks, he held the lantern higher, so it lit up his face.

Wardroom door shut-- that'd be so no one from forward, where the Marines and ship's company slung their hammocks, could see into the wardroom (or see the scuttle, which was in the wardroom).

At a snap of his fingers he could have every alternate man flogged - or allow them to laze in their hammocks for the rest of the day.