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Definition of hammock : 1. A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land.
2. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.

Synonyms:

pile, heap, dismissal, sack, firing, poke, cumulus, pocket, sacque, hillock, sacking, air bed, pitcher, hanging bed, pitcher's mound, pouch, cumulation, chemise, hill, knoll, mound, liberation, shift, bedstead, release, swinging couch, bedhead, bedpost, bedroll, dismission, sac, bedside, hummock, sackful, carrier bag, discharge, paper bag, agglomerate

cradle, bunk bed, queen-size bed, hospital bed, four poster, bed, day bed, bassinet, cot, crib, single bed, fold-away bed, double bed, berth, sofa bed, king-size bed, roll-away bed, bunk

Usage examples:

• Therefore tie the ropes of your hammock yourself, or examine and test the job done for you. - "Edge of the Jungle", William Beebe.
• And, indeed, Dick required no rocking when, after a refreshing wash, he stretched his long limbs in his hammock. - "The Wheel O' Fortune", Louis Tracy.
• The celebrated coxswain, Charles Fish, was also harbour boatman at Ramsgate, and slept in a watch- house at the end of the pier in a hammock. - "Heroes of the Goodwin Sands", Thomas Stanley Treanor.