hanger Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a worker who hangs something
  2. noun anything from which something can be hung

WordNet

Hang"er noun
Definitions
  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.(d) (d) clothes hanger
  3. That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.
  4. A steep, wooded declivity. Eng. Gilbert White.

Webster 1913