hammock

noun

1. a hanging bed or couch made of canvas, netted cord, or the like, with cords attached to supports at each end.

noun

1. hummock(def 1).

noun

1. a length of canvas, net, etc, suspended at the ends and used as a bed

noun

1. a variant of hummock (def. 3)

n.

1650s, alteration of hamaca (1550s), from Spanish hamaca, from Arawakan (Haiti) word apparently meaning “fish nets” (cf. Yukuna hamaca, Taino amaca).