Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hanger"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bridle iron \Bri"dle i`ron\ (Arch.)
A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a
stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient
bearing can be had; -- called also {stirrup} and {hanger}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hanger \Hang"er\, n.
1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially:
(a) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword
is suspended.
(b) (Mach.) A part that suspends a journal box in which
shafting runs. See Illust. of {Countershaft}.
(c) A bridle iron.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hanger
n 1: a worker who hangs something
2: anything from which something can be hung
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