hammock

«hammock» in Mova's school dictionary: A bed made of cloth or net hung between two trees or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hammock, hammocks)

meaning for a pupil

1) A bed made of cloth or net hung between two trees or posts, which you lie in and can swing. tree →

2) (old use, ships) A bed hung between beams on a ship, used by sailors. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, hammocks are used in gardens, on camping trips and on holiday. In history lessons, sailors on ships like HMS Victory slept in hammocks. In stories, a character lazing in a hammock shows a relaxed, sunny moment. The word came from the Taíno people of the Caribbean.

examples

• Dad fell asleep in the hammock in the garden. tree →
• Sailors slept in hammocks below deck. tree →
• We hung a hammock between two trees at the campsite. tree →
• The cat curled up in the swinging hammock. tree →
• Getting out of a hammock is harder than it looks! tree →
• Some sloths look like they are in a hammock when they hang from branches. tree →
• So, without stopping to talk, the guests slung their hammocks, the monkey taking care to place his so high that no one could get at him. tree →

note

Countable. Spelling: double m, «-ock». Safety: never put a baby to sleep in a hammock without an adult and don't swing too high.

In the corpora

• Words such as hammock, canoe and hurricane came into English from the Taíno language.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hammock» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.