This article deals with the most common use of the word hammock.  A hammock is a sling for sleeping or resting in. Particularly in the southern US, a hammock can also mean a piece of thickly wooded land, usually covered with bushes and vines. The hammock is a device used to sleep or rest in […]

A weather vane, also called a wind vane, is a movable device attached to an elevated object such as a roof for showing the direction of the wind. The weather vane must be balanced so that half its weight is on either side of its axis, but also designed so that the areas exposed to […]