Example sentences for: hammock

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  • Portuguese was the immediate source of four words (the Portuguese, it will be recalled, were also in India for several centuries, losing their colony of Goa only in December 1961): copra , from Hindi khopra via Malayalam koppara; machila or machilla `hammock slung from a pole,' from Hindi manzil (borrowed unchanged from Arabic) via Tamil macil or mancil; tael `unit of weight,' from Hindi tola (adapted from Sanskrit tula ) via Malay tahil ; and jambolan `Java plum,' the English version of Portuguese jambulao , from Hindi jambul .

  • A ritualistic mark of bravery for Carib warriors was cannibalism, and it’s for this that history most remembers the Indians who invented the hammock and gave their name to the Caribbean.

  • However, enjoying a lunch of fresh fish, followed by a siesta in a hammock strung between two palms makes the trip absolutely worthwhile.

  • Hammocks come in a remarkable variety of styles, colors, and sizes (a miniature model for your cat, a double-wide hammock for the adventurous).

  • In fact, the hammock was an Amerindian invention that remains with us today; it is an object which, more than any other, evokes an image of a warm sunny day on a tropical isle.


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