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noun

Hanger n.

One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.

That by which a thing is suspended. Especially:

(a)

A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.

(b)

(Mach.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs.

(c)

A bridle iron.

That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.

A steep, wooded declivity. (Eng.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hanger" Quotes from Famous Books

... has not to attend from ten till four, he could come and take lessons too,' said Lactimel, who, now that she was no longer a hanger-on of Gertrude's, could afford ...

— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope

... the back of the tongue toward the soft palate and lowering the soft palate toward the tongue, we produce nasal sound, such as is heard in the pronunciation of the word "hanger," for instance. The air is then expelled chiefly through the nose. The nasal sound can be much exaggerated—something that very rarely happens; it can be much neglected—something that very often happens. Certain it is that it is not ...

— How to Sing - [Meine Gesangskunst] • Lilli Lehmann

... "A pin! That is Frode himself! A beard on your chin, and you also will be a feeder of wolves! For that you shall have a share in the battle. I swear it by the hilt of the Hanger!" ...

— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

... Often enough, during my stay in England, have I listened to these gruff or broken voices; or perhaps gone to my window when I lay sleepless, and watched the old gentleman hobble by upon the causeway with his cape and his cap, his hanger and his rattle. It was ever a thought with me how differently that cry would re-echo in the chamber of lovers, beside the bed of death, or in the condemned cell. I might be said to hear it that night myself in the condemned cell! At length a fellow with a voice like a ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... alter the fact that you've put out the wrong coat. Be so good, Jeeves," I said, indicating with a gesture the gent's ordinary dinner jacket or smoking, as we call it on the Cote d'Azur, which was suspended from the hanger on the knob of the wardrobe, "as to shove that bally black thing in the cupboard and bring out my white mess-jacket with the ...

— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse

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