'Hanger' definitions:
Definition of 'hanger'
From: WordNet
noun
A worker who hangs something
noun
Anything from which something can be hung
Definition of 'Hanger'
From: GCIDE
- Hanger \Hang"er\ (-[~e]r), n.
- 1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A steep, wooded declivity. [Eng.] --Gilbert White. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'hanger'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hanger'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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