Word Meanings - HAMMOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Columbus, in the Narrative of his first voyage, says: "A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of 1. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the

Additional info about word: HAMMOCK

Columbus, in the Narrative of his first voyage, says: "A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of 1. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends. 2. A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land. Bartlett. Hammock nettings , formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; now, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.

Related words: (words related to HAMMOCK)

• NETTLER
  One who nettles. Milton.
• COUCHE
  Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon. Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couché is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.
• NETTING
  A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding. Totten. Netting needle, a kind of slender shuttle
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• SWINGDEVIL
  The European swift.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• VOYAGEUR
  A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• COUCHER
  One who couches paper. 3. Etym: A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic. Blount. The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts. Cowell. (more info) 1. One who couches.
• SWINGE
  See SPENSER
• COUCHLESS
  Having no couch or bed.
• CANVASSER
  One who canvasses.
• SWINGLE
  1. To dangle; to wave hanging. Johnson. 2. To swing for pleasure.
• SWINGLETREE
  A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• MINETTE
  The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• SATINETTE
  One of a breed of fancy frilled pigeons allied to the owls and turbits, having the body white, the shoulders tricolored, and the tail bluish black with a large white spot on each feather.
• ACCOUCHEMENT
  Delivery in childbed (more info) of a child, to aid in delivery, OF. acouchier orig. to lay down, put to bed, go to bed; L. ad + collocare to lay, put, place. See
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• VILLANETTE
  A small villa.
• BONETTA
  See HERBERT