0 a type of bed used especially outside, consisting of a net or long piece of strong cloth that you tie between two trees or poles so that it swings (= moves sideways through the air)
1 a net or strong piece of cloth, wide enough for a person to lie on, hanging between two poles or trees to which it is attached
There is often a wooden platform between the stilts where food is prepared and where hammocks are slung, although people sleep mostly upstairs on mats.
The fibrous ring may be an isolated lesion, but more frequently is associated with a parachute or hammock valve.
A large wind-chime hammock sculpture was suspended from a woven canoe-like roof structure lashed to the pier's end.
In addition to cloth production, we consider the importance of spinning thread for fishnets and hammocks.
A rarer cause is the hammock mitral valve, again stenotic in most cases.
Of the 13 patients with a hammock valve, 6 died in hospital.
Of 13 patients with hammock lesions, six died in hospital.
The hammock valve is the most difficult anomaly to correct due to the quantity of muscle that is found beneath the leaflets.