hanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæŋ.ə/
ipa: /ˈhæŋ.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈheɪŋ.ɚ]
rhymes: -æŋə(ɹ)
homophone: hangar
Forms: form: hangers
Etymology: From Middle English hanger, haunger, hangere, equivalent to hang + -er. Compare West Frisian hinger (“hanger”), Dutch hanger (“hanger”), German Hänger and Henker.
Senses: glosses: One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman, paper hanger, etc.
examples: text: With the jumpers and the drowners, McGee, you don't pick up a pattern. That's because a jumper damned near always makes it the first time, and a drowner is usually almost as successful, about the same rate as hangers.
ref: 2017, Ronald V. Clarke, Suicide: Closing the Exits:
glosses: A person who attempts suicide by hanging.
glosses: That by which a thing is suspended.
A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
glosses: That by which a thing is suspended.
A bridle iron.
glosses: That by which a thing is suspended.
A clothes hanger.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: That by which a thing is suspended.
Ellipsis of derailleur hanger
examples: text: [H]is shoulder was graced with a broad buff belt, from whence depended a huge hanger with a hilt like that of a backsword […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: I made an offer to go for my books and chest of clothes, but he swore I should not move out of his sight; and if I did he would cut my throat, at the same time taking his hanger.
ref: 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 4, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:
text: He was a stout old gentleman, with a weather-beaten countenance; he wore a laced doublet, broad belt and hanger, high-crowned hat and feather, red stockings, and high-heeled shoes, with roses in them.
ref: 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:
text: When he called ‘Watch!’ they cut him on the head with a hanger or short cutlass and fired a pistol so close to his face he was thought to be powder-burned for life.
ref: 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 440:
glosses: A short and broad backsword, worn so to hang at the side, especially popular in the 18th century.
examples: text: About the tenth of July in the same Summer a pair of sparrow-hawks bred in an old crow's nest on a low beech in the same hanger; and as their brood, which was numerous, began to grow up, became so daring and ravenous, that they were a terror to all the dames in the village that had chickens or ducklings under their care.
ref: 1789, Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selborne, Page 187:
text: 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
ref: 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble:
glosses: A steep, wooded slope.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A hanging pitch; a pitch (typically a breaking ball or slider) that is poorly executed, hence easy to hit.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Synonym of spectacular mark.
synonyms: word: spectacular mark
examples: text: Climbers use anchors or bolts that are already placed in the rock. They clip onto them with metal hangers. Climbers don't need to place the anchors themselves, so they can focus on making the difficult climbing moves.
ref: 2012, Christine Dugan, Defying Gravity! Rock Climbing, page 37:
text: In marine areas (sea cliffs), even stainless steel bolts and hangers corrode rapidly.
ref: 2021, John Long, Bob Gaines, Rock Climbing: The Art of Safe Ascent, page 118:
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A device secured by a bolt and used to attach a carabiner.
Derived terms: a hanger and a flogger
apehanger
bottle hanger
busy as a one-armed paper hanger
casing hanger
cliff hanger
cliff-hanger
cliffhanger
clothing hanger
coat-hanger
crapehanger
crepehanger
doorhanger
door hanger
goalhanger
hangar queen
hangar rash
hangar rat
hanger and flogger
hangerless
hanger on
hanger-on
hanger steak
mech hanger
monkey hanger
onhanger
on-hanger
paperhanger
post hanger
pothanger
straphanger
wall hanger