hammock nettings

pl. Naut .: A row of forked, upright, iron stanchions, supporting a netting or wooden trough, in which the seamen stow their hammocks during the day. hammock-racks, s. pl . [HAMMOCK-BATTENS.] hammock-shroud, s . A poetical expre ion which derives its force from the fact that the bodies of sailors or other persons dying at sea are sewed up in hammocks and committed to the deep. "His heavy-shotted hammock-shroud." Tennyson: In Memoriam , ii. 15. bā-mōse, a . [Mod. Lat. hamosus .] [HAMOUS.] Bot.: Curved like a fish-hook, hooked, bent. hā-mous, a . [Lat. ham us a hook; Gr. chamos =a fish-hook; cf. Gael. cham = bent, and suff. -ous .] Bot.: Hamose (q. v.).