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Hammock   /hˈæmək/   Listen
Hammock

noun
1.
A small natural hill.  Synonyms: hillock, hummock, knoll, mound.
2.
A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily.  Synonym: sack.






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"Hammock" Quotes from Famous Books



... form, dear, native home of mine,— A gold-net hammock swung from palm to pine, Moved by the breezes of the peaceful sea, And in the net, smiling so drowsily, My mother California, queen divine, Rests, while the poppy garlands ...
— In Macao • Charles A. Gunnison

... In a swinging hammock lying, Lightly flying, Zara, lovely indolent, O'er a fountain's crystal wave There to lave Her ...
— Poems • Victor Hugo

... not in your hammock, Dick; you have been wounded, and we are both prisoners in the hands of these Malays. Try and pull yourself together, but don't move; they have put a sort of bandage round your shoulder, and I am going to ...
— Among Malay Pirates - And Other Tales Of Adventure And Peril • G. A. Henty

... breakfast. Her Uncle Dick, however, at last did remark that Mary had not much to say. "I am afraid grown-up parties are too much for Mary," he said, after breakfast, drawing her to his side in the hammock and cuddling her to him. "Are you sleepy, Mary, or don't ...
— Three Little Cousins • Amy E. Blanchard

... snowy hammock-cloths restricted the view shoreward from the quarter-deck chairs, and surprise as deep as that which greeted the girl surged through the disputing three at a great splashing over the side, accompanied by the boom of a voice that must come from ...
— The Pirate Woman • Aylward Edward Dingle


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