Definition of Hangable

1. Adjective. Able to be hanged or suspended. ¹

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Definition of Hangable

1. hang [adj] - See also: hang

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hangable

hang onto
hang out
hang out one's shingle
hang out to dry
hang over
hang paper
hang ten
hang the moon
hang tight
hang time
hang times
hang together
hang tough
hang up
hang up one's boots
hangable (current term)
hangar
hangar-queen
hangar queen
hangarage
hangared
hangaring
hangarless
hangarlike
hangars
hangashore
hangashores
hangbird
hangbirds
hangdog

Literary usage of Hangable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne: Taken from Original Sources by John Ashton (1882)
"... Parliament and Statutes made in the Reign of Henry 8th and his two Daughters, all those People calling themselves Bohemians or Egyptians, are hangable ..."

2. The Comic Blackstone by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, George Cruikshank (1869)
"... be hanged at fourteen, and certainly may not be hanged at seven, but the intermediate period is one of doubt whether the infant culprit is hangable. ..."

3. Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Frederick James Furnivall (1868)
"455, 0.,Fr. pendable, hangable, that deserves hanging, thats fit to be hanged. Cot. Poor table, men to be cheerful at, 1. 258. Presumption, beware of, 1. ..."

4. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1904)
"And if a man buys anything and cannot do this he is hangable by judgment, by the usage of the city, if he be not of the franchise. Fordwich, cap. ..."

5. Borough Customs by Mary Bateson (1904)
"And if a man buys anything and cannot do this he is hangable by judgment, by the usage of the city, if he be not of the franchise. Fordwich, cap. 15. ..."

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