(n.) One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
(n.) That by which a thing is suspended.
(n.) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
(n.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft.
(n.) A bridle iron.
(n.) That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.
(n.) A steep, wooded declivity.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Before this scheme rolled out I think there were very few accidents in the insulation industry," said the commissioner, Ian Hanger QC, adding that problems occurred after an influx of people becoming installers, including a number of "shonks".
(2) When he could finally find a question he was able to understand or willing to answer, his responses were either that he was far too important to have got involved in that level of detail or a microscopic analysis of the price of coat hangers.
(3) My present intention is not to repeat the examination and findings of those inquiries, nor do I intend to endlessly traverse matters which have already been examined,” Hanger told the opening hearing in Brisbane.
(4) The missing detail in every incomplete clarification worked like a cliff-hanger ending in a soap, leaving the audience hungry for the next episode.
(5) Our attitude was like Mr T and Rocky downstairs in the basement listening to a radio with a hanger sticking out of it doing push-ups.
(6) Press TV, which has offices near Hanger Lane in north-west London, employs a number of other UK journalists.
(7) Wings for the A400M – made from lightweight composites rather than aluminium to dramatically reduce weight and improve speed and manoeuvrability – are taking shape inside a nondescript hanger in Filton called 07N.
(8) Almost a full day behind schedule, Rudd appeared in Brisbane magistrate's court but did not speak a word beyond giving his name as the commissioner, Ian Hanger QC, and legal representatives held a heated discussion about the huge portions of Rudd's statement which had been redacted on request from the commonwealth due to parliamentary privilege.
(9) Hanger said: "Four young men died while undertaking installations funded by the home insulation program.
(10) Outside parliament on Saturday coat hangers, brandished by protesters as symbols of the crude tools used for backstreet abortions, were interspersed with red-painted placards proclaiming “My womb, not the fatherland’s” but also broader messages, such as “Make love not PiS”.
(11) Demonstrating his drawing power, hundreds of supporters turned out in the unlikely and awkward setting of an aircraft hanger.
(12) For women who lived in the United States before abortion was made legal, there are few images more evocative and distressing than the wire coat hanger.
(13) And so it was that I too succumbed to the vile illness and found myself quite without sight for a month, a cliff-hanger infinitely more effective in a serialisation than when you need only turn the page to find my sight restored.
(14) Lung cancer was elevated among men employed as insulators (odds ratio [OR] = 6.0; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.7, 137.8), carpenters (OR = 1.3; 95% CI = 1.0, 1.7), painters, plasterers, and wallpaper hangers (OR = 2.0; 95% CI = 1.2,3.3), structural metal workers (OR = 1.9; 95% CI = 0.6,6.0), mechanics and repairers (OR = 1.3; 95% CI = 1.0,1.7), motor vehicle drivers (OR = 1.5; 95% CI = 1.2,1.8), police and firefighters (OR = 1.6; 95% CI = 1.1,2.3), and food service personnel (OR = 1.8; 95% CI = 1.0,3.5).
(15) The television will finally come off standby and every single dress I own will be on its own hanger.
(16) Walker suggested Hanger's final report would be "impossible" should Rudd not be allowed to fully answer "suggestions" made by the current government that the home insulation scheme was created in days.
(17) The handles are attached to the slitlamp stand by placing a hanger bolt screw into the wooden dowel, inserting the exposed end of the screw through a hole drilled in the slitlamp table, and fastening the handle with a wing nut.
(18) Turn right at a crossroads to the Beech Hanger Woodland.
(19) It has been quite a phenomenon, telling us how, still, market dogmatism rules the economics profession (and its hangers-on in journalism).
(20) If this scene feels out of place in 2016, that may be because there was a time in this country’s history when thousands of back-alley and coat-hanger abortions prompted calls for the procedure to be legal.
Hanker
Definition:
(v. i.) To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.
(v. i.) To linger in expectation or with desire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(2) All lovely, logical reasons, none of which apply to me: I work from home, live in London and don't need to budget because I only hanker for tat.
(3) He hankered for a return to Spain but, despite collecting four winners’ medals in his first season and celebrating the first league title of his career the following year, things did not proceed entirely as he might have hoped at Camp Nou.
(4) He seems to hanker after footholds – a dabble with Scientology has come to an end, and it seems fair to say that the experience has contributed to what he calls his "wounded position".
(5) In our apolitical age, his ideological promiscuity looks more like posturing than what it really was, a desperate hankering after the truth.
(6) Phillips, a journalist for many years before he became a full-time politician (does he still hanker to be London mayor?)
(7) McBride’s book, published almost 10 years after Brown’s death, is that hankering for more.
(8) A muted reaction works better than the self-righteous explosion they are sometimes hankering after.
(9) But what they hanker for is a left that treats Israel the way it treats any other country with such a record – as a flawed society, but not one that is a byword for evil, that is deemed a “disease” (as it was by a caller to a 2010 show on Press TV , the Iranian state broadcaster, without objection from the host, Jeremy Corbyn), whose very right to exist is held to be conditional on good behaviour, a standard not applied to any other nation on Earth.
(10) If she’d turned over the records it would have put an end to it pretty early.” Clinton’s hankering for privacy should not be confused with reticence.
(11) Squint, and you might think the Lib Dems were maintaining the equal distance between the other parties they used to hanker after.
(12) Photograph: National Trust What do you do if you hanker after a dose of solitude somewhere scenic and remote, but can no longer heft a heavy rucksack because of a dodgy back?
(13) Some in our movement hanker for the days of protectionism, imagining that tariffs on imports support local jobs,” Wong says.
(14) Which would all be fine, I venture, except that few people hanker after a big tub of popcorn on a Saturday night to watch a socially engaged, left-slanting film.
(15) It had appeared that Scott was destined to resist, thereby disappointing those hankering to know more of Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, and Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer).
(16) Following incubation the copper ferrocyanide reaction product was amplified with 3,3'-diamino-benzidine according to Hanker et al.
(17) The sites of the antigen-antibody reaction were demonstrated by the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex method using the Hanker-Yates reagent as a peroxidase substrate.
(18) "Of course JCS subsequently became a legit theatre stalwart, but I, personally, have always hankered after seeing it again in the arenas where it started," said Andrew Lloyd Webber in a statement.
(19) He will tell the Tory right that it runs the risk of endangering the coalition's collective achievements in cutting the deficit by hankering after tax cuts for the rich, or renegotiating the European Union treaty in the wake of the Euro crisis.
(20) It was typical of Hughes to leave the Brazilian on the bench for his last game, and when he has played Robinho has only occasionally looked as impressive as his price tag, though it is hardly Hughes's fault if the Brazilian none too secretly hankers for a move back to Spain or needs a manager with a more stellar CV fully to motivate him.