Newgate hornpipe
slang (now archaic )
noun
(The vigorous kicking of a person undergoing) death by hanging.
Origin
Early 19th century.
- right-handed rope
- right-hander
- right-hand lock
- right-hand man
- right-hand rope
- right-hand rule
- right-hand screw
- right heart
- Right Hon.
- Right Honourable
- right horizon
- rightify
- rightish
- rightism
- rightist
- right justification
- right-justified
- right-justify
- right-left
- rightless
- right line
- rightly
- right-minded
- right-mindedness
- rightmost