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unˈhang, v.
[un-2 3. Cf. Du. onthangen.]
1. trans. To take down from a hanging position.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 293 For ho so þus leued his lyff to the ende..Myȝte seie þat he sawe..Þat heuene were vnhonge out of þe hookis. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. cxxiv. (1869) 66 From thennes the scauberk she vnheeng and brouhte it. c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 941 To unhange, despendre. 1598Florio, Disimpiccare, to vnhang. 1614W. Browne Sheph. Pipe i. B 2 b, Wicked Swaines, that beare me spight,..Of my fold will draw the pegges,..Or vnhang my Weathers bell. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Trav. Wks. iii. 82/1, I pray the let vs make hast, and put the Waggon vnder the Gibbet, to see if we can vnhang and saue him. 1722De Foe Col. Jack v, They unhanged a small copper, and brought it off. 1769Lloyd's Even. Post Sept.–Oct. 319/2 A Butcher's wife..was endeavouring to unhang a joint of meat. 1856Smetham in Beardmore Smetham (1906) 26 Unhanging a Turner from the wall of a distant room, he brought it to the table. 1888A. Nutt Holy Grail 40 No knight should..unhang the shield till Galahad should come.
fig.1616Hieron Wks. II. 24 It was not inough..for our Sauiour to take them off, & (as it were) to vnhang them from the world, unlesse He did also fixe them other-where.
b. Naut. To remove (a rudder) from its fastening.
1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 552 Their cables do oftentimes breake, and their ruthers are vnhanged,..by reason the shippes doe ride but in little water. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 49 They were forced to unhang the Rudder, and new hang it again. 1772–84Cook's Voy. (1790) III. 796 We..found the Tamar lying between the island and the main, having unhung her rudder. 1799Naval Chron. II. 568 The rudder of the Isis was unhung.
c. To divest of hangings. rare—0.
1719Boyer Dict. Royal ii, To Unhang a Room, détendre la Tapisserie d'une Chambre.
2. To undo the hanging of (a person).
1829Southey Pilgrim to Compostella iii. 54 So, with all honours that might be, They gently unhang'd Pierre. 1837Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) I. vii. 134 And hanging the nigger wouldn't unhang the old gentleman! |