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Synonyms for hammocks

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ham-uh k
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhæm ək

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Définition of hammocks

Origin :
  • 1650s, alteration of hamaca (1550s), from Spanish hamaca, from Arawakan (Haiti) word apparently meaning "fish nets" (cf. Yukuna hamaca, Taino amaca).
  • As in berth : noun harbor; bunk
Example sentences :
  • We walked, we sat in the shade, we lay in hammocks, we read novels.
  • Extract from : « John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein » by Frank R. Stockton
  • We were lounging lazily in our hammocks at Jimamaylan one evening in April.
  • Extract from : « An Epoch in History » by P. H. Eley
  • They are expert agriculturists, and construct canoes and hammocks.
  • Extract from : « The Western World » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • The midshipmen, turning out of their hammocks, quickly dressed.
  • Extract from : « The Three Commanders » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • All the men swung their hammocks on board their floating fortress, and were quite secure from any intrusion of the savages.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott
  • The woman pointed me to one of these hammocks, and leaving me there went into the house.
  • Extract from : « Anting-Anting Stories » by Sargent Kayme
  • The epidermis of the leaves furnishes the strings for hammocks and all kinds of cordage.
  • Extract from : « The Forest Exiles » by Mayne Reid
  • They drone in your hammocks and you comb their hair and feed them with fresh fruit.
  • Extract from : « Cabbages and Kings » by O. Henry
  • Over these hang the hammocks, each the sleeping-place of a cadet.
  • Extract from : « Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) » by Various
  • We only saw half the cadets in their hammocks in the Britannia.
  • Extract from : « Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) » by Various
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