hanging : Idioms & Phrases

• a compass suspended so that the card may be read from beneath.

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• a garden sustained at an artificial elevation by any means, as by the terraces at Babylon.

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• . See under Indentation.

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• (Arch.), that rail of a door or casement to which hinges are attached.

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• (Mining), the overhanging side of an inclined or hading vein.

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• . (a) Strips of the same stuff as the gown, hanging down the back from the shoulders. (b) Loose, flowing sleeves.

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• . (Arch.) (a) That stile of a door to which hinges are secured. (b) That upright of a window frame to which casements are hinged, or in which the pulleys for sash windows are fastened.

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• noun the upper wall of an inclined fault
  

WordNet

• (Mining), the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein.

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