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How to pronounce hammock in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms sack
Type of bed
Type Words
Synonyms hillock, hummock, knoll, mound
Type of hill
Has types formicary, anthill, kopje, koppie, molehill

Examples of hammock

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But what camper would want the hassle of lugging around a bulky hammock all day?
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Let's just hope the people are covered up on the hammock while they are breeding.
From the orlandosentinel.com
We'd lie in the hammock and listen to country music, play croquet, ride Pal, etc.
From the newsobserver.com
Then they fashioned a makeshift hammock to carry my father the rest of the way.
From the ocregister.com
At times they were chained to each other or to a hammock post for 24 hours a day.
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There was a brief fire-fight and then the Seminoles disappeared into a hammock.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Interior features include hammock-style seats with fabric suspended on a frame.
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A giant hammock spun from a tropical plant is mounted above the living-room sofa.
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Lukenbill pulled a banner under the leak, hammock style, and the game resumed.
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  • A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
  • The hammock is a fabric sling suspended between two points, used for swinging, sleeping, or resting. It normally consists of one or more cloth panels, or a woven network of twine or thin rope stretched with ropes between two firm anchor points such as trees or posts. ...
  • Hammock is an American two-member post-rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. With music created in between production and songwriting projects over the course of two years, Hammock combines live instrumentation, electronic beats, and droning guitar into atmospheric music similar in style to the ...
  • Hammocks are dense stands of hardwood trees that grow on natural rises of only a few inches higher than surrounding marshland that is otherwise too wet to support them. ...
  • Hammocking is a technique used by broadcasters whereby an unpopular programme is scheduled between two popular ones in the hope that viewers will watch it. Public-service broadcasters use this as a way of promoting serious but valuable content. ...
  • (The Hammocks) The Hammocks is a historic site in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States. It is located at 311 John Anderson Highway. On September 5, 1989, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
  • A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends; A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines
  • (hammocked) Ensconced in a hammock; Scheduled between two other programmes, by hammocking