hanging
decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,771 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,256 times across 173,849 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window also: wall hanging the cold castle walls were covered with hangings
- a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment
- the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) also: suspension, dangling there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait
hanging in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Low hanging in the midnight sky Looked in a half-faced moon.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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Vrouw Vedder put a yoke across her shoulders, with hooks hanging from each end of it.
The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1
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The same programme of hanging, then shooting bullets into the lifeless bodies was carried out to the letter.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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Then, climbing up still higher, he at last reached a house beside whose open door six bells were hanging.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1
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As pale as her brother, her face bathed in tears, and her beautiful hair hanging undone, Mlle. Gilberte drew herself up.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1