a. One who suspends a thing from above; often in combinations as bell-hanger, paper-hanger, etc. (see under the first element). spec. One of those who select and hang the pictures for an exhibition (e.g. that of the Royal Academy).

b. One who puts a person to death by hanging, or causes him to be hanged.

†c. One who hesitates or wavers: see hang v. 17. Obsolete.

f. A local name for the seaweed tangle.

g. (See quot. 1905.)

a. A contrivance by which anything is hung; a rope, chain, or hook used to suspend something; a support for a journal-box, etc., of a shafting. Also attributive.

†b. A loop or strap on a sword-belt from which the sword was hung; often richly ornamented.

c. A loop by which anything is hung, as the loop at the back of the neck in a coat, etc.; the loop of a hunting-whip or crop.

d. A chain or iron rod to which a pot or kettle is hung by means of a pot-hook in the old-fashioned kitchen fireplace. Hence transferred. A nursery name for the stroke with a double curve (ı), one of the elementary forms in learning to write; usually in the phrase pot-hooks and hangers.

e. A coat- or dress-hanger.

a. A follower or dependant (familiarly and often disparagingly).

†b. An appendage, an adjunct. Obsolete.

c. Coal Mining. The same as onsetter, a workman who puts the corves or tubs into the ‘cage’ or ‘chair’ at the bottom of the pit-shaft. Formerly these were hung on to the end of the rope or chain.