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HAMMOCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
Synonyms:
hammock; sack
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("hammock" is a kind of...):
bed (a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A small natural hill
Synonyms:
hammock; hillock; hummock; knoll; mound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("hammock" is a kind of...):
hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hammock"):
anthill; formicary (a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest)
kopje; koppie (a small hill rising up from the African veld)
molehill (a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb hammock
Context examples:
The hot weather made him indolent, and he had shirked his studies, tried Mr. Brooke's patience to the utmost, displeased his grandfather by practicing half the afternoon, frightened the maidservants half out of their wits by mischievously hinting that one of his dogs was going mad, and, after high words with the stableman about some fancied neglect of his horse, he had flung himself into his hammock to fume over the stupidity of the world in general, till the peace of the lovely day quieted him in spite of himself.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I was very sensible of my entertainer's goodness, and listened to the women's going to bed in another little crib like mine at the opposite end of the boat, and to him and Ham hanging up two hammocks for themselves on the hooks I had noticed in the roof, in a very luxurious state of mind, enhanced by my being sleepy.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I got with much difficulty out of my hammock, having first ventured to draw back the slip-board on the roof already mentioned, contrived on purpose to let in air, for want of which I found myself almost stifled.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I had, in this closet, a field-bed and a hammock, hung from the ceiling, two chairs and a table, neatly screwed to the floor, to prevent being tossed about by the agitation of the horse or the coach.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And I had ordered a hammock to be fixed, by silken ropes from the four corners at the top, to break the jolts, when a servant carried me before him on horseback, as I sometimes desired; and would often sleep in my hammock, while we were upon the road.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
On the roof of my closet, not directly over the middle of the hammock, I ordered the joiner to cut out a hole of a foot square, to give me air in hot weather, as I slept; which hole I shut at pleasure with a board that drew backward and forward through a groove.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
