hammock

See also: Hammock

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hamaca, from Taíno *hamaka (compare Lokono hamaka, Wayuu jama'a), from Proto-Arawak *hamaka. 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 bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep.”

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæmək/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈhæmək/, /ˈhæmɪk/

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• Rhymes: -æmək

Noun

hammock (plural hammocks)

1. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet (1.8 meters) wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
   • 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book I, page 7:

     […] the poore ſaylers, who […] commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes) reſting their tyred bodies […]

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[Miscellany Fables.] Fab[le] CCCLXXXIII. A Spider and the Gout [Reflexion].”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 355:

     [W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?

2. (US, archaic outside dialects) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.

Derived terms

• banana hammock
• hammockless
• hammocklike
• hammock litter
• hammock netting
• hammocky

Descendants

• Swedish: hammock

Translations

swinging couch or bed

Albanian: shtrat i varur, hamak Arabic: أُرْجُوحَة شَبَكِيَّة f (ʔurjūḥa(t) šabakiyya) Armenian: ցանցաճոճ (hy) (cʻancʻačoč), գամակ (hy) (gamak), համակ (hy) (hamak) Basque: hamaka Belarusian: гама́к m (hamák) Breton: gwele-skourr (br) m Bulgarian: хама́к (bg) m (hamák) Burmese: ပုခက် (my) (pu.hkak) Catalan: hamaca f Chinese: Mandarin: 吊床 (zh) (diàochuáng) Czech: houpací síť f, hamaka (cs) f Danish: hængekøje (da) c Dutch: hangmat (nl) f Esperanto: hamako Estonian: võrkkiik Faroese: heingikoyggja f Finnish: riippumatto (fi) French: hamac (fr) m Friulian: amaca f Galician: hamaca f Georgian: ჰამაკი (ka) (hamaḳi) German: Hängematte (de) f Greek: αιώρα (el) f (aióra) Ancient: αἰώρα f (aiṓra) Hawaiian: ʻahamaka Hebrew: ערסל (he) (arsal) Hindi: झूला (hi) m (jhūlā), जालीदार झूला (jālīdār jhūlā) Hungarian: függőágy (hu) Icelandic: hengirúm (is) n Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Interlingua: hamaca Irish: ámóg f, leaba luascáin f Isthmus Zapotec: guixhe Italian: amaca (it) f, branda (it) Japanese: ハンモック (ja) (hanmokku) Kayapó: kubẽjaê Khmer: អង្រឹង (km) (ɑŋrɨŋ) Korean: 해먹 (haemeok) Lao: ເປ (pē) Latin: lectulus pensilis Latvian: šūpuļtīkls m Lithuanian: hamakas m Macedonian: лежалка f (ležalka) Malay: buaian rajut Maltese: branda Maori: moenga whakawerewere Norwegian: Bokmål: hengekøye (no) m or f Nynorsk: hengjekøye f Occitan: hamaca f, litiera f Ottoman Turkish: حاماق (hamak) Persian: ننو (fa) (nanu), بانوج (fa) (bânuj), بادنیج (bâdnij) (archaic) Plautdietsch: Henjbad n Polish: hamak (pl) m Portuguese: rede (pt) f, rede de dormir f, rede de descanso f, maca (pt) f (nautical) Rarotongan: ‘āmaka Romanian: hamac (ro) n Russian: гама́к (ru) m (gamák) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: висаљка f Roman: visaljka (sh) f Slovak: hojdacia sieť f, hamak (sk) m Slovene: viseča mreža (sl) f Spanish: hamaca (es) f, hamaca paraguaya f (Argentina, Uruguay), chinchorro (es) m (light) Swahili: machela (sw) Swedish: (bed) hängmatta (sv) c; (couch) hammock (sv) c Tamil: கித்தான்கட்டில் (kittāṉkaṭṭil) Thai: เปลญวน (th) (bplee-yuuan) Turkish: hamak (tr) Ukrainian: гама́к m (hamák), підві́сне лі́жко (pidvísne lížko) Urdu: جالی دار جھولا (jālī dār jholā), جھولن کھٹولا Vietnamese: võng (vi) Welsh: hamog m, hamogau m pl White Hmong: vaum vias Záparo: kwaticha, kwatíchaw

piece of land

Chinese: Mandarin: 茂密的林地 (màomì de líndì) Finnish: pusikko French: hammock (fr) m German: Bauminsel f

Verb

hammock (third-person singular simple present hammocks, present participle hammocking, simple past and past participle hammocked)

1. (intransitive) To lie in a hammock.
   • 1901, Yone Noguchi, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (wiki article):

     "I fancied that we — I and who? — hammocked among the summer breezes."

2. (transitive, of a cloth) To hang in a way that resembles a hammock.
   • 2013, Mary Jo Putney, Patricia Rice, Susan King, Christmas Roses: Love Blooms in Winter‎:

     "She hammocked their plaids between the table and the bed, then edged her way past Kenneth as she approached the central hearth."

3. (transitive) To make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.
   • 1960, John D. MacDonald, The Only Girl in the Game‎:

     "She hammocked her breasts into her bra, snapped it, hitched at it, and gave herself a profile glance in the mirror."

4. (transitive, broadcasting) To schedule (a new or unpopular programme) between two popular ones in the hope that viewers will watch it.

   Coordinate term: tentpole

Derived terms

• hammocked
• hammocking