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hammock-cloth
hammock-cloth [The relation of sense 1 to hammock1 is not apparent.] † 1. A cloth for the back of a horse. Obs.1685 Lond. Gaz. No. 2060/4 A Hammock Cloth for a Coach Horse, of a Dark-hair-color'd Cloth Imbroider'd with Red and White. 1687 Ibid. 2270/4, 2 Hammock Cloaths of green Flowred Velvet on a ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Hammock
It normally consists of one or more cloth panels, or a woven network of twine or thin rope stretched with ropes between two firm anchor points such as Etymology The word hammock comes, via Spanish, from a Taíno culture Arawakan word meaning "stretch of cloth" from the Arawak root while ha- indicated wikipedia.org
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Hammercloth
A third is that it is a corruption of "hammock", and that a "hammock-cloth" was a strip of fabric used instead of a wooden seat in days before carriages On a carriage with no springs, a hammock provides a much more comfortable ride than a wooden slat, and so "hammock-cloth" may have been the original term wikipedia.org
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hammock
▪ I. hammock1 (ˈhæmək) Forms: α. 6–9 hamaca, 7 -acca, -acco, -ackoe, hammacho, 8 hamacoe, 8–9 hammacoe. β. 7 hamack(e, hammac(k, -aque, amack, hamock, hammok, 8 hammoc, 8–9 hamac, 7– hammock. [a. Sp. hamaca of Carib origin; cf. F. hamac (1555 in Hatz.-Darm.).] 1. A hanging bed, consisting of a large... Oxford English Dictionary
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Malong
The malong can function as a skirt for both men and women, a turban, Niqab, Hijab, a dress, a blanket, a sunshade, a bedsheet, a "dressing room", a hammock A newborn is wrapped in a malong, and as he grows this piece of cloth becomes a part of his daily life. wikipedia.org
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hammer-cloth
hammer-cloth [Derivation unknown. The conjecture in quot. 1854 is obviously untenable: the coachman's ‘box’ is not known before 1600. De Quincey, Autobiog. Germ. Stud., 1836, (Wks. 1889 II. 83) has a conjecture that hammer-cloth is ‘a corruption from hamper-cloth.’ Prof. Skeat has compared Du. hemel... Oxford English Dictionary
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waist-cloth
waist-cloth † 1. Naut. pl. Coloured cloths hung about the upper works of a ship as an adornment on occasions of ceremony, or on going into action, when they also served to screen the men aboard. Obs.1615 R. Cocks Diary (Hakl. Soc.) I. 31 The China Capt. being ready to goe for Goto, I lent hym our bo... Oxford English Dictionary
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Pangi (Maroon)
Pangi cloth is a cotton fabric with multi-colored vertical and horizontal stripes, similar to West African kente cloth. It may be used by women for a wrap or a sling to carry a baby, by men for a breech cloth or shoulder cape and for other purposes such as making a hammock wikipedia.org
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Krama
krɑmaa/ ) is a sturdy traditional Cambodian garment with many uses, including as a scarf, bandanna, to cover the face, for decorative purposes, and as a hammock Cambodians did not raise silkworms at the time, did not know how to sew, but did know how to weave cotton cloth from kapok. wikipedia.org
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Baba Umer Dargah
It is known for a baby throwing ritual, in which infants are dropped from a 15-meter platform onto a cloth held by both Muslim and Hindu men. and drop the ailing infants from the roof to show their trust in the almighty" and after doing so, "the babies were miraculously cradled to safety in a hammock-like wikipedia.org
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Baynard Kendrick
Also published as The Case of the Perfect Murder Scheme Minus Four Equals Murder (1954) Hotel in the Hammock (1956) The Cloth of Gold Murders. Tampa Tribune, 30 April 1961 That Riotous Hunting Trip to Gulf Hammock. Tampa Tribune, 7 May 1961 Daniel McGirth and His Horse Gray Goose. wikipedia.org
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Jason's cradle
The device is similar to a scramble net made of cloth webbing. It can take the form of a hammock or stretcher for the rescue of weakened or injured people when the "top" and "bottom" of the net are lowered to the water wikipedia.org
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Wanám
The shirts were decorated with sewn or glued strips of bark cloth or dyed with urucu. He was then wrapped in his hammock and buried outside the house in a circular grave surrounded by a high fence. wikipedia.org
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Ghodiyu
A ghodiyu is an infant cradle formed of a wooden frame and a cloth hammock (jholi). The frame is often hooked onto a hammock which harnesses the young baby. Typically, a ghodiyu is designed to have a low center of gravity. wikipedia.org
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Florence Macfarlane
In 1856 John Macfarlane joined the family business making wire cloth products and which also moved into paper milling. The child kneeling in front of the hammock is three year old Paul Lamartine Yates, the son of Rose Emma Lamartine Yates, the Organising Secretary and Treasurer wikipedia.org
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