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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
hammock .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A trebuchet is like a catapult, only with greater range, thanks to its heavy counterweight and to the hammocklike sling that flings its ordnance.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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A trebuchet is like a catapult, only with greater range, thanks to its heavy counterweight and to the hammocklike sling that flings its ordnance.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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A trebuchet is like a catapult, only with greater range, thanks to its heavy counterweight and to the hammocklike sling that flings its ordnance.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Carefully extracting herself from the hammocklike contrivance lest it try to ambush her dignity again, Fanielle sat on the edge of the low retaining wall that separated the scenic overlook from the jungle directly below.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Carefully extracting herself from the hammocklike contrivance lest it try to ambush her dignity again, Fanielle sat on the edge of the low retaining wall that separated the scenic overlook from the jungle directly below.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Green-goes-Softly settled into a hammocklike lounge nearby.
The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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Green-goes-Softly settled into a hammocklike lounge nearby.
The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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Nearly everything that could be taken away from the hunting site had been lashed to packboards, or wrapped in skins ready to be swung hammocklike from stout poles carried across the shoulders of two people.
The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985
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The heightened emotions evoked genuine cries of sorrow and grief from the Mamutoi when the two children were solemnly carried out of a lodge on hammocklike biers, and brought around to each person for a final farewell.
The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985
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The wood had been gathered along the trail that day by the wrangler and stowed in a hammocklike contraption stretched under the bottom of the chuck wagon, called a cooney.
This Calder Range Janet Dailey 1982
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