hammock
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- noun
- /ˈhæmək/
:
hamaca
- After a long hike, we set up our hammock at the campsite to rest and enjoy the view.
- lie in a hammock
- carried in a hammock
- hammock bearers
He has this like hammock seat, hammock chair thing hanging beside his bed.
- He has this like hammock seat, hammock chair thing hanging beside his bed.
- Go back to my Hut, in my tombow, in my hammock.
- And we as adults will sometimes get in a hammock.
- But yeah, normally, yeah, just from tree to tree set up the hammock.
- And so if the baby started crying, we could put the baby in the, in the, in the hammock in the sling.
- Her room was in the eaves of the attic where she'd slung a beach ball colored hammock.
- OK, So you're down there, you're going to camps, you're sleeping in a in a jungle hammock, a hammock five nights a week and your wife moves there with you.
- So he crawled under the hammock to the floor.
Examples
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I love to relax with a book while lying in my hammock between two trees.
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On warm summer evenings, I often take a nap in my hammock in the backyard.
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You can sleep in your hammock.
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His strategy was to catch fish, eat protein bars and sleep on a hammock inside of the pod.
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This beach with these chairs, an entire pool, a hammock, and then all these palm trees.
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Say, Linus, while I was lying in that hammock, I got a great idea.
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This is Aspen enjoying the hammock and this is our beautiful view.
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I flopped my body down onto the hammock and looked out over the yard towards Mom's cottage.
Fiction book (1991) -
I think of my hammock in the backyard, or my wife pruning the rose bushes in a pair of my old work gloves.
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In the corner, high above our heads, hangs a hammock filled with stuffed animals and dolls.
Fiction book (1996)
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word hammock comes from a native Caribbean word hamaka, later Spanish hamaca, which meant a 'stretch of cloth' used for sleeping. So a hammock is really a cloth bed you stretch and hang between two trees or posts, and that simple image helps you remember its meaning.