hangmentn.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. Hanging.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun]
hanginga1300
hangmentc1440
gallows1483
gibbet1502
Tyburn checka1529
Tyburn stretch1573
caudle of hempseed1588
hempen caudle1588
swinging1591
rope law1592
rope-leap1611
cording1619
turn1631
nubbing1673
cravatting1683
gibbetation1689
topping1699
Tyburn jig1699
noosing1819
scragging1819
Tyburn tie1828
Newgate hornpipe1829
dance upon nothing1841
drop1887
suspension1909
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 225/2 Hangement [v.r. hongment], suspendium, suspencio.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxxvi. 146 This is to seye, My soule hathe choson hongment.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 324 Power into hangement and into deeth.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Hangment..also hanging, execution.
2. (See quots.)
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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [noun] > religious oaths (referring to God) > referring to the devil or hell
fienda1568
hangment1825
heck1887
hell1888
Hades1912
hell-fire1939
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (at cited word) To play the hangment, is to be much enraged, to play the very deuce.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Hangment..an expression of surprise, as, ‘what the hangment!’
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Oct. 6/1 ‘What the dickens have you to do with it?..who the hangment are you?’
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