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HANGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hanger mean? 

HANGER (noun)
  The noun HANGER has 2 senses:

1. a worker who hangs somethingplay

2. anything from which something can be hungplay

  Familiarity information: HANGER used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HANGER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A worker who hangs something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("hanger" is a kind of...):

worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)

Derivation:

hang (cause to be hanging or suspended)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Anything from which something can be hung

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hanger" is a kind of...):

support (any device that bears the weight of another thing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hanger"):

clothes hanger; coat hanger; dress hanger (a hanger that is shaped like a person's shoulders and used to hang garments on)

strap (hanger consisting of a loop of leather suspended from the ceiling of a bus or train; passengers hold onto it)

Derivation:

hang (cause to be hanging or suspended)


 Context examples 


He roared aloud, and his hanger went up above his head, flashing in the sunlight.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then she set me on a table, where I showed her my hanger all bloody, and wiping it on the lappet of my coat, returned it to the scabbard.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The latter, by virtue of a twisted crank-hanger, required repairing, and, as a matter of friendliness with his future brother-in-law, he sent it to Von Schmidt's shop.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

However, I had the courage to rise and draw my hanger, and attack them in the air.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

One of them came up almost to my face, whereupon I rose in a fright, and drew out my hanger to defend myself.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The ugly monster, when he saw me, distorted several ways, every feature of his visage, and stared, as at an object he had never seen before; then approaching nearer, lifted up his fore-paw, whether out of curiosity or mischief I could not tell; but I drew my hanger, and gave him a good blow with the flat side of it, for I durst not strike with the edge, fearing the inhabitants might be provoked against me, if they should come to know that I had killed or maimed any of their cattle.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When the beast felt the smart, he drew back, and roared so loud, that a herd of at least forty came flocking about me from the next field, howling and making odious faces; but I ran to the body of a tree, and leaning my back against it, kept them off by waving my hanger.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They forced me into the long-boat, letting me put on my best suit of clothes, which were as good as new, and take a small bundle of linen, but no arms, except my hanger; and they were so civil as not to search my pockets, into which I conveyed what money I had, with some other little necessaries.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And as for that monstrous animal with whom I was so lately engaged (it was indeed as large as an elephant), if my fears had suffered me to think so far as to make use of my hanger, (looking fiercely, and clapping my hand on the hilt, as I spoke) when he poked his paw into my chamber, perhaps I should have given him such a wound, as would have made him glad to withdraw it with more haste than he put it in.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I was immediately produced, and placed upon a table, where I walked as I was commanded, drew my hanger, put it up again, made my reverence to my master’s guest, asked him in his own language how he did, and told him he was welcome, just as my little nurse had instructed me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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