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Entry 4 senses Webster, 1913

Hanger

/(-ẽr)/ · Hang·er · IPA /ˈhæ̞ŋ.ə/
01 n. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
  1. 1.
    One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
  2. 2.
    That by which a thing is suspended.(Mach.)
  3. 3.
    That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.
  4. 4.
    A steep, wooded declivity.[Eng.]