Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete form of hang.
  • noun A Chinese warehouse, consisting of a succession of rooms or store-houses.
  • noun Formerly, as used by the Chinese, one of the foreign factories maintained at Canton in the early days of trade with China; now, any foreign mercantile establishment in China, Japan, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb obsolete To hang.
  • noun A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage.
  • noun one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of trading with foreigners.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A foreign trading company in China (行,洋行)

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