Hammock: Definition and part of speech

Hammock

  1. n. A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land.
  2. n. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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