hanger
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hanger (plural hangers)
- One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
- That by which a thing is suspended. Especially:
- A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
- (machines) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs.
- A bridle iron
- A clothes hanger
- That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.
- 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:
- He was a stout old gentleman, with a weather-beaten countenance; he wore a laced doublet, broad belt and hanger, high-crowned hat and feather, red stockings, and high-heeled shoes, with roses in them.
- 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:
- (UK) A steep, wooded declivity.
- 1789, Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selborne, Page 187:
- About the tenth of July in the same Summer a pair of sparrow-hawks bred in an old crow's nest on a low beech in the same hanger; and as their brood, which was numerous, began to grow up, became so daring and ravenous, that they were a terror to all the dames in the village that had chickens or ducklings under their care.
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble:
- 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
- 1789, Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selborne, Page 187:
Usage notes [edit]
Not to be confused with hangar (a garage-like building for airplanes).
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Noun [edit]
hanger m (plural hangers, diminutive hangertje)
