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Hammock vs Hommock - What's the difference?

hammock | hommock |

As nouns the difference between hammock and hommock

is that hammock is a swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends while hommock is .

hammock

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
  • * 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
    • ...the poore ?aylers, who...commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes ) re?ting their tyred bodies...
  • (US, archaic) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.

    • Derived terms

    * hammock nettings (Nautical ) formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; later, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "hammock")

    hommock

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)