Meanings
- uncountableA person who has been hanged.
Then one of the men who were hanging there, asked him for Christian charity to cut the rope. He did so, and Hempstretch fell on his feet: and, thanking him for the benefit which he had received, desired that he would take him behind him, because he must accompany him in that journey.
1850, António Vieira (translated), SermoensSynonyms: hempseed, gallows bird
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person who has been hanged.
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