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    Hammock - Wikipedia

    A hammock, from Spanish hamaca, borrowed from Taíno and Arawak hamaka, is a sling made of fabric, rope, or netting, suspended between two or more points, used for swinging, sleeping, or resting. It normally consists of one or more cloth panels, or a woven network of twine or thin rope stretched with ropes … See more

    The word hammock comes, via Spanish, from a Taíno culture Arawakan word meaning 'stretch of cloth' from the Arawak root -maka while ha- … See more

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    There are currently a wide variety of hammocks available. There are hammocks that are designed specifically for See more

    1. ^ Sleeswyk 1990, p. 362
    2. ^ Aĭkhenvald, Alexandra (2012). Languages of the Amazon. Oxford University Press. p. 64. See more

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    Some 19th-century authors attributed the invention of the hammock to the Athenian politician Alcibiades (d. 404 BC). This was inferred from See more

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    • Blomfield, R. Massie (1911), "Hammocks and their Accessories", The Mariner's Mirror, 1 (5): 144–147, doi:10.1080/00253359.1911.10654498
    • Sleeswyk, … See more

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