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HANGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Anything from which something can be hung
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("hanger" is a kind of...):
support (any device that bears the weight of another thing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hanger"):
clothes hanger; coat hanger; dress hanger (a hanger that is shaped like a person's shoulders and used to hang garments on)
strap (hanger consisting of a loop of leather suspended from the ceiling of a bus or train; passengers hold onto it)
Derivation:
hang (cause to be hanging or suspended)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A worker who hangs something
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hanger" is a kind of...):
worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)
Derivation:
hang (cause to be hanging or suspended)
Context examples:
For I have already told the reader how much I was pestered by these odious animals, upon my first arrival; and I afterwards failed very narrowly, three or four times, of falling into their clutches, when I happened to stray at any distance without my hanger.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Once a kite, hovering over the garden, made a stoop at me, and if I had not resolutely drawn my hanger, and run under a thick espalier, he would have certainly carried me away in his talons.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I took up a thimble filled with liquor, which Glumdalclitch had given me for a cup, and drank their health, I drew out my hanger, and flourished with it after the manner of fencers in England.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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