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hanger

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Noun
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hang=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

hangern. 
  •  One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.  [1913 Webster]
  •  That by which a thing is suspended.  [1913 Webster]
  •  That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A steep, wooded declivity.  Gilbert White.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hanger, n.
1 a person or thing that hangs.
2 (in full coat-hanger) a shaped piece of wood or plastic etc. from which clothes may be hung.

Idiom
hanger-on (pl. hangers-on) a follower or dependant, esp. an unwelcome one.
hanger, n. Brit. a wood on the side of a steep hill.

Etymology
OE hangra f. hangian HANG

THESAURUS

hanger

afforestation, arboretum, banner, banner head, bar, belt, boom, boondocks, braces, bush, bushveld, button, caption, chase, climax forest, clotheshorse, clothespin, cloud forest, crane, dendrology, drape, drop head, dropline, ear lobe, epigraph, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, fringing forest, gallery forest, gallows, galluses, garter, gibbet, greenwood, hake, hanging, head, heading, headline, hook, horse, index forest, jump head, jungle, jungles, knob, lappet, legend, lobation, lobe, lobule, motto, nail, national forest, overline, pair of suspenders, palmetto barrens, park, park forest, peg, pendant, pine barrens, pothook, primeval forest, protection forest, rain forest, reforestation, ring, rubric, running head, running title, scarehead, screamer, scrub, scrubland, selection forest, shrubland, silviculture, spar, spread, spreadhead, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, streamer, stud, subhead, subheading, subtitle, superscription, supporter, suspender, suspenders, suspensory, timber, timberland, title, title page, tree veld, uvula, virgin forest, wildwood, wood, woodland, woods, yard, yardarm

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