meaning of hangings
1. Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter.
2. Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves.
3. Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges.
4. The act of suspending anything; the state of being suspended.
5. Death by suspension; execution by a halter.
6. That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc. , or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural.
7. of Hang
8. the act of suspending something hanging it from above so it moves freely; "there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the
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