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Hammock vs Waistcloth - What's the difference?

hammock | waistcloth |

As nouns the difference between hammock and waistcloth

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 waistcloth is a cloth or garment worn around the waist.

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")

    waistcloth

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cloth or garment worn around the waist.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1791, author=Alexandre (fils) Dumas, title=The Son of Clemenceau, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Two rows of slate beds, three of which only were occupied; two men and a boy, nude save a waistcloth ; over their heads--sluggishly swayed by the air the new-comer had carelessly admitted--their clothes were hung like shapeless shadows. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=Frank T. Bullen, title=The Cruise of the Cachalot, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He was dressed in all the dignity of a woollen shirt, with a piece of fine "tapa" for a waistcloth , feet and legs bare. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Joseph Altsheler, title=The Hunters of the Hills, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Fresh leaves had been stripped from a bush and a tiny fragment or two indicated that the Ojibway had torn a piece from his deerskin waistcloth to fasten over the leaves. }}
  • (nautical) A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.
    • (Webster 1913)