hammock

Meanings

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.
2. A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.

1. To lie in a hammock.
2. To hang in a way that resembles a hammock.
3. To make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.
4. To schedule (a new or unpopular programme) between two popular ones in the hope that viewers will watch it.

1. A surname.

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.”