Synonyms:
hammock, sack
Meaning: a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
Synonyms:
knoll, mound, hillock, hummock, hammock
Meaning: a small natural hill
Usage examples
At this Featherstone sat upright, with his legs dangling out of the hammock.
A hammock was slung from the ceiling which in the daytime was lashed up so as to take but little room.
"By Jove!" exclaimed Featherstone again, raising himself higher in his hammock, "that's not a bad idea.
When Chris awoke he saw that Amos had already stolen out of the cabin, for his hammock was rolled up and put away.
His occupation at length attracted the roving eyes of Featherstone, who poked forth his head from his hammock, and said in a sleepy voice:
When a stranger enters, he is invited to sit in a hammock; and at Santa Rosa we were always presented with a cup of guayusa; in Brazil with a cup of coffee.
But occasionally, when Louise tired of her novel and her cushions in the hammock, the two girls would play tennis or croquet together--Beth invariably winning.
Pocket, who had been expelled from the company by common consent, went sulkily away towards her hammock, for she was the fairy of the calceolaria, and looked rather wicked.
This inner door Montgomery at once closed. A hammock was slung across the darker corner of the room, and a small unglazed window defended by an iron bar looked out towards the sea.
The Queen and Dot and Tot each climbed into one of the hammocks and were covered over with silk-quilted comfortables, after which Mr. Split turned a key at the end of each hammock and set them moving gently to and fro like the rocking of a cradle.