Hammock or small hill

[Humpback]

I just discovered that a 'hammock' can mean a hammock which I use to camp in as well as 'a small natural hill' on which I sometimes camp!
Hammock as in hill is not a word I've heard before.
Anyway I suspect there are a fair few hammockateers © on the forum and whether a sub forum might be worth exploring with the site owner Tony bearing in mind half the kit referred to on the US site I frequent is hard or impossible to get here in the UK.
Any thoughts?


Alan

 

[Dogoak]

Are you sure it's not a 'hummock'? that is a term for a small hill.

 

[mountainm]

Are you sure it's not "hummock" that's a small hill?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummock

EDIT:

It is indeed a varient of Hummock:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hammock

hammock 2 (ˈhæmək)

— n
a variant of hummock

 

[Goatboy]

I know that here and in the US we use "Hummock" to mean a small hill but never "Hammock" is it a local meaning?

 

[resnikov]

Or is it just hummock said with a funny regional accent?

 

[andybysea]

though a small hill was a hillock.Now its also a hammock and a hummock....

 

[Humpback]

Yes I've never heard this variant. Found by accident when bored😃


Alan

 

[santaman2000]

In this part of Florida a "hammock" is a small grove of trees, vegetation, or swamp. As in "I hunted squirrels in that oak hammock last week."