Hammock vs Waistcloth - What's the difference?
hammock | waistcloth |
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
(US, archaic) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
A cloth or garment worn around the waist.
* {{quote-book, year=1791, author=Alexandre (fils) Dumas, title=The Son of Clemenceau, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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)
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
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(en noun)- ...the poore ?aylers, who...commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes ) re?ting their tyred bodies...
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
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