HAMMOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hammock mean? 

• HAMMOCK (noun)
  The noun HAMMOCK has 2 senses:

1. a small natural hill

2. a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily

  Familiarity information: HAMMOCK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAMMOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small natural hill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

hammock; hillock; hummock; knoll; mound

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hammock; sack

Hypernyms ("hammock" is a kind of...):

bed (a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep)

 Context examples 

I found myself not very well, and told the page that I had a mind to take a nap in my hammock, which I hoped would do me good.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The pelvic floor is a group of muscles and other tissues that form a sling or hammock across the pelvis.

(Pelvic Support Problems, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

Very low it was still, of course; but there was room to swing two hammocks, and even the mate seemed pleased with the arrangement.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Laurie lay luxuriously swinging to and fro in his hammock one warm September afternoon, wondering what his neighbors were about, but too lazy to go and find out.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Some time after he was in his hammock that night, I heard him myself repeat to Ham, “Poor thing! She's been thinking of the old 'un!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The hunters possibly no more than tolerated me, though none of them disliked me; while Smoke and Henderson, convalescent under a deck awning and swinging day and night in their hammocks, assured me that I was better than any hospital nurse, and that they would not forget me at the end of the voyage when they were paid off.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The first jolt had like to have shaken me out of my hammock, but afterward the motion was easy enough.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Peeping through the meshes of the hammock, he saw the Marches coming out, as if bound on some expedition.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That night, for the first time in all those many nights, the candle was taken out of the window, Mr. Peggotty swung in his old hammock in the old boat, and the wind murmured with the old sound round his head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Before I went to sleep, I gave him to understand that I had some valuable furniture in my box, too good to be lost: a fine hammock, a handsome field-bed, two chairs, a table, and a cabinet; that my closet was hung on all sides, or rather quilted, with silk and cotton; that if he would let one of the crew bring my closet into his cabin, I would open it there before him, and show him my goods.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)