Hanger

Hanger - Other Definitions

• (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.