hanging
/hæŋɪŋ/ noun C1- The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide). · Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there.· The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village.
- Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, or posters).
- The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged. · I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters.
Plural hangings
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Dorothy went to get him, and saw such delicious fruit hanging from the branches that she gathered some of it, finding it just what she wanted to help out her breakfast.
Dorothy had only one other dress, but that happened to be clean and was hanging on a peg beside her bed.
When Marilla went out that evening to bring the cows from the back pasture, Matthew, who had been hanging about the barns and watching, slipped into the house with the air of a burglar and crept upstairs.
On the other side of the water they could see the road of yellow brick running through a beautiful country, with green meadows dotted with bright flowers and all the road bordered with trees hanging full of delicious fruits.
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