hammockn.

Brit.

/ˈhamək/, U.S.

/ˈhæmək/

Forms: α. 1500s–1800s hamaca, 1600s hamacca, hamacco, hamackoe, hammacho, 1700s hamacoe, 1700s–1800s hammacoe. β. 1600s hamack(e, hammac(k, hammaque, amack, hamock, hammok, 1700s hammoc, 1700s–1800s hamac, 1600s– hammock.

Etymology: < Spanish hamaca of Carib origin; compare French hamac (1555 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).

1. A hanging bed, consisting of a large piece of canvas, netting, etc. suspended by cords at both ends; used esp. by sailors on board ship, also in hot climates or seasons on land.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > hammock

hammock1555

hanging cabin1598

serpentine1767

sack1829

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > bed on ship > hammock

hammock1555

mick1929

α.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 200 Theyr hangynge beddes..whiche they caule Hamacas.

1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 55 They lay each of them in a cotten Hamaca, which we call brasill beds.

1613 R. Harcourt Relation Voy. Guiana 32 Hamaccas, which are the Indian beds most necessary in those parts.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 7 Saylers, who..get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes) [1677 or hamacks].

1761 London Mag. 30 220 Orders were..given for sewing him up in a hamacoe, in order to bury him.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 170 To keep the hammacoes in the stantions.

1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru I. iii. vi. 456 Carried on the shoulders of the natives in the hamacas, or sedans, of the country.

β. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 11 A Hamacke, the lockers, the round-house.1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 45 Lie down and rest them in their Hamocks.1675 Mistaken Husband v. i. 53 It cannot be so convenient as a Hammaque.1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 134 There is nothing but Famine that can draw them out of their Amacks.1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 112 Travelling is in Hammocks..slung cross a Pole and bore up at each end by a Negro.1804 Ld. Nelson 26 Apr. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) V. 514 Seamen's beds and hammocks are very much wanted.1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxviii. 93 I went aboard, and turned into my hammock.

2. transferred. Applied to the suspended nest of the hangbird or American oriole; and to the suspended case made by the caterpillars of certain moths.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Icterus (oriole)

starling1674

icterus1713

hanging bird1759

oriole1782

hangbird1789

hammock1853

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > member of (moth) > young > case made by or hammock

hammock1853

1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 293 And there the hang-bird's brood within its little hammock swings.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species vii. 208 A caterpillar which had completed its hammock up to, say, the sixth stage of construction.

1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. ii. §60 61 There is a Caterpillar that makes a very complicated hammock.

†3. = hammock-cloth n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1690 London Gaz. No. 2612/4 Lost..a Coach-Horses Hammock of Crimson and Musk Colour Caffaw fringed with the same colours.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

hammock-bearer n.

ΚΠ

1819 Edinb. Rev. 32 389 Carried by hammock-bearers at a foot pace.

hammock-cradled adj.

C2.

hammock-batten n. one of the battens or strips of wood nailed to the ship's beams, from which the hammocks are slung.

ΚΠ

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hammock Battens or Racks, cleats or battens nailed to the sides of a vessel's beams, from which to suspend the seamen's hammocks.

hammock chair n. a folding reclining-chair with canvas support for the body, suitable for use in a sitting-room or garden; a deckchair.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > folding chair

beach chair1878

hammock chair1881

deckchair1884

camp-chair1885

Savonarola chair1887

Roorkee chair1905

safari chair1913

picnic chair1920

director's chair1922

Roorkee1936

transat1968

1881 Graphic 18 June in L. de Vries Vict. Advts. (1968) 127/1 The Yankee hammock chair..costs but 17s. 6d. complete.

1885 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List II. 1478 Portable Hammock Chairs.

1971 Country Life 1 Apr. (Suppl.) 44/2 (advt.) Early 19th century hammock chair in mahogany upholstered in deep-buttoned Havana brown leather.

hammock-clew n. (also hammock-clue) the series of small cords ( hammock-lines) by which a hammock is suspended at each end.

ΚΠ

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 62 Hammock-lines are made from groundtows.

hammock-man n. one of two or more men employed in carrying a hammock slung on poles.

ΚΠ

1734 W. Snelgrave Acct. Guinea 25 I had six Hammock-men, who relieved one another by turns.

1777 Suckling in Laughton Lett. & Disp. Nelson 9 The Commanding Officer should always be particular in having the hammocks well stowed in the nettings.]

hammock-moth n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. 379 The Hammock-moth, Perophora sanguinolenta, of the centre of South America, the larva of which constructs its own portable habitations out of its own excrement.

hammock-nettings n. originally rope nettings in which the hammocks when rolled up were stowed away on board ship, these being lashed or hung to the hammock rails above the bulwarks; hence the long troughs afterwards constructed for this purpose on the top of the bulwarks of the spar-deck in a man-of-war.

ΚΠ

1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xviii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 171/2 Heavy solid bulwarks four feet high, surmounted by hammock nettings.

hammock-rack n. = hammock-batten n.

hammock-rails n.

ΚΠ

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xv. 236 The captain..stood upon the weather hammock rails, holding by the main-rigging.

hammock-shroud n. a hammock used as a shroud in which to bury a corpse at sea.

ΚΠ

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam vi. 6 His heavy-shotted hammock-shroud Drops in his vast and wandering grave.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hammock
释义	hammockn. Brit. /ˈhamək/, U.S. /ˈhæmək/ Forms: α. 1500s–1800s hamaca, 1600s hamacca, hamacco, hamackoe, hammacho, 1700s hamacoe, 1700s–1800s hammacoe. β. 1600s hamack(e, hammac(k, hammaque, amack, hamock, hammok, 1700s hammoc, 1700s–1800s hamac, 1600s– hammock. Etymology: < Spanish hamaca of Carib origin; compare French hamac (1555 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter). 1. A hanging bed, consisting of a large piece of canvas, netting, etc. suspended by cords at both ends; used esp. by sailors on board ship, also in hot climates or seasons on land. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > hammock hammock1555 hanging cabin1598 serpentine1767 sack1829 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > bed on ship > hammock hammock1555 mick1929 α. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 200 Theyr hangynge beddes..whiche they caule Hamacas. 1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 55 They lay each of them in a cotten Hamaca, which we call brasill beds. 1613 R. Harcourt Relation Voy. Guiana 32 Hamaccas, which are the Indian beds most necessary in those parts. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 7 Saylers, who..get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes) [1677 or hamacks]. 1761 London Mag. 30 220 Orders were..given for sewing him up in a hamacoe, in order to bury him. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 170 To keep the hammacoes in the stantions. 1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru I. iii. vi. 456 Carried on the shoulders of the natives in the hamacas, or sedans, of the country. β. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 11 A Hamacke, the lockers, the round-house.1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 45 Lie down and rest them in their Hamocks.1675 Mistaken Husband v. i. 53 It cannot be so convenient as a Hammaque.1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 134 There is nothing but Famine that can draw them out of their Amacks.1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 112 Travelling is in Hammocks..slung cross a Pole and bore up at each end by a Negro.1804 Ld. Nelson 26 Apr. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) V. 514 Seamen's beds and hammocks are very much wanted.1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxviii. 93 I went aboard, and turned into my hammock. 2. transferred. Applied to the suspended nest of the hangbird or American oriole; and to the suspended case made by the caterpillars of certain moths. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > genus Icterus (oriole) starling1674 icterus1713 hanging bird1759 oriole1782 hangbird1789 hammock1853 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > member of (moth) > young > case made by or hammock hammock1853 1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 293 And there the hang-bird's brood within its little hammock swings. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species vii. 208 A caterpillar which had completed its hammock up to, say, the sixth stage of construction. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. ii. §60 61 There is a Caterpillar that makes a very complicated hammock. †3. = hammock-cloth n. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1690 London Gaz. No. 2612/4 Lost..a Coach-Horses Hammock of Crimson and Musk Colour Caffaw fringed with the same colours. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. hammock-bearer n. ΚΠ 1819 Edinb. Rev. 32 389 Carried by hammock-bearers at a foot pace. b. hammock-cradled adj. C2. hammock-batten n. one of the battens or strips of wood nailed to the ship's beams, from which the hammocks are slung. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hammock Battens or Racks, cleats or battens nailed to the sides of a vessel's beams, from which to suspend the seamen's hammocks. hammock chair n. a folding reclining-chair with canvas support for the body, suitable for use in a sitting-room or garden; a deckchair. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > folding chair beach chair1878 hammock chair1881 deckchair1884 camp-chair1885 Savonarola chair1887 Roorkee chair1905 safari chair1913 picnic chair1920 director's chair1922 Roorkee1936 transat1968 1881 Graphic 18 June in L. de Vries Vict. Advts. (1968) 127/1 The Yankee hammock chair..costs but 17s. 6d. complete. 1885 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List II. 1478 Portable Hammock Chairs. 1971 Country Life 1 Apr. (Suppl.) 44/2 (advt.) Early 19th century hammock chair in mahogany upholstered in deep-buttoned Havana brown leather. hammock-clew n. (also hammock-clue) the series of small cords ( hammock-lines) by which a hammock is suspended at each end. ΚΠ 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 62 Hammock-lines are made from groundtows. hammock-man n. one of two or more men employed in carrying a hammock slung on poles. ΚΠ 1734 W. Snelgrave Acct. Guinea 25 I had six Hammock-men, who relieved one another by turns. 1777 Suckling in Laughton Lett. & Disp. Nelson 9 The Commanding Officer should always be particular in having the hammocks well stowed in the nettings.] hammock-moth n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. 379 The Hammock-moth, Perophora sanguinolenta, of the centre of South America, the larva of which constructs its own portable habitations out of its own excrement. hammock-nettings n. originally rope nettings in which the hammocks when rolled up were stowed away on board ship, these being lashed or hung to the hammock rails above the bulwarks; hence the long troughs afterwards constructed for this purpose on the top of the bulwarks of the spar-deck in a man-of-war. ΚΠ 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xviii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 171/2 Heavy solid bulwarks four feet high, surmounted by hammock nettings. hammock-rack n. = hammock-batten n. hammock-rails n. ΚΠ 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xv. 236 The captain..stood upon the weather hammock rails, holding by the main-rigging. hammock-shroud n. a hammock used as a shroud in which to bury a corpse at sea. ΚΠ 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam vi. 6 His heavy-shotted hammock-shroud Drops in his vast and wandering grave. 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