A word expressive of anything declining in the middle part below a straight line, as the hanging of a deck or a sheer. Also, when a ship is difficult to be removed from the stocks, or in manœuvre.
·noun Death by suspension; execution by a halter. II. Hanging ·adj Suspended from above; pendent; a...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
(as a punishment), a mark of infamy inflicted on the dead bodies of criminals (Deut. 21:23) rather t...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Hangings The "hanging" was a curtain or 'covering' to close an entrance; one was placed before the ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
These are sometimes fitted with a long and short leg, and lash over the eyes of the top-mast rigging...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A semicircular iron, with a foot at each end to receive nails, by which it is fixed to any part of t...
A compass so constructed as to hang with its face downwards, the point which supports the card being...
Those which are applied under the lodging-knees, and are fayed vertically to the sides. ...
Any stage hung over the side, bows, or stern, for painting, caulking, or temporary repairs. ...
Used for ventilating or drying between decks. ...
East out of Whitefriars Street, at No. 22, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.O. Directory). First menti...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
South out of Fleet Street and west to Hanging Sword Alley, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 167...
Tin utensils fitted for hanging to the bars before the galley-grate. ...
A knee fayed vertically beneath a hold-beam, with one arm bolted on the lower side of the beam. ...
So as to allow the pintles to fall into their corresponding braces, constantly in boats, and frequen...