Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Hanging; suspension.
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Examples
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Ha 'long they might have sat aw connot tell, hadn't th' door oppened, an 'Betty come runnin' in wi 'a pot to beg a sup o' hot watter, for shoo said "Her chap had coom hooam, an 'shoo'd been rayther longer nor shoo expected, an' he wor playin 'th' varry hangment for his drinkin '."
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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But 'twas his grandsire was talked o ', not him; and 'twould play the hangment wi' me doun here, if 'twas thought there was stories like that passin 'in the George and Dragon.'
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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My father, Alvan Eames, often used the word "hangment". The context was " He played hangment with me!", meaning "Played Hell with me".
He was born at Wath-on-Dearne, Yorkshire, in 1900, and died in 1978.
July 15, 2012