hanger

hanger
    n 1: a worker who hangs something
    2: anything from which something can be hung
    

Hanger \Hang"er\ (-[~e]r), n.
   1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
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   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.
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   3. That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the
      side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved
      sword.
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   4. A steep, wooded declivity. [Eng.] --Gilbert White.
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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}.
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109 Moby Thesaurus words for "hanger":
      afforestation, arboretum, banner, banner head, bar, belt, boom,
      boondocks, braces, bush, bushveld, button, caption, chase,
      climax forest, clotheshorse, clothespin, cloud forest, crane,
      dendrology, drape, drop head, dropline, ear lobe, epigraph, forest,
      forest land, forest preserve, forestry, fringing forest,
      gallery forest, gallows, galluses, garter, gibbet, greenwood, hake,
      hanging, head, heading, headline, hook, horse, index forest,
      jump head, jungle, jungles, knob, lappet, legend, lobation, lobe,
      lobule, motto, nail, national forest, overline, pair of suspenders,
      palmetto barrens, park, park forest, peg, pendant, pine barrens,
      pothook, primeval forest, protection forest, rain forest,
      reforestation, ring, rubric, running head, running title,
      scarehead, screamer, scrub, scrubland, selection forest, shrubland,
      silviculture, spar, spread, spreadhead, sprout forest,
      stand of timber, state forest, streamer, stud, subhead, subheading,
      subtitle, superscription, supporter, suspender, suspenders,
      suspensory, timber, timberland, title, title page, tree veld,
      uvula, virgin forest, wildwood, wood, woodland, woods, yard,
      yardarm