- Form of capital punishment - Slack - of Hang - Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. - Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves. - Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging
post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges. - The act of suspending anything; the state of being
suspended.
- Execute on gibbet - Let droop - Lynch - String up - Suspend - To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without
support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on
a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner. - To fasten in a manner which will allow of free motion upon
the point or points of suspension; -- said of a pendulum, a swing, a
door, gate, etc.
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