Hanger
['hæŋə] or ['hæŋɚ]
Definition
(noun.) anything from which something can be hung.
(noun.) a worker who hangs something.
Checked by Francis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
(n.) That by which a thing is suspended.
(n.) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
(n.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft.
(n.) A bridle iron.
(n.) That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.
(n.) A steep, wooded declivity.
Edited by Bonita
Examples
- One of them came up almost to my face, whereupon I rose in a fright, and drew out my hanger to defend myself. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Then she set me on a table, where I showed her my hanger all bloody, and wiping it on the lappet of my coat, returned it to the scabbard. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- However, I had the courage to rise and draw my hanger, and attack them in the air. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Nor have you, O poor parasite and humble hanger-on, much reason to complain! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I have not seen such timber any where in Dorsetshire, as there is now standing in Delaford Hanger! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- But Coodle knew the danger, and Doodle knew the danger, and all their followers and hangers-on had the clearest possible perception of the danger. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As a number of loafers and hangers-on about the docks threatened injury to Fulton’s Folly, as the building boat was called, he had to engage watchmen to guard his property. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The family of this Master Todd were hangers-on of the house of Osborne. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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