1 gen 1698 anni - hanger

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A short sword, originally intended to hang from the belt. 1512 <i>Item ij batell axis ... ij swords and a dager and a hynger iijs,</i> York (SS79/35); 1535 <i>with his Wodknyf or hanger and dagger by his syde,</i> Beverley (YRS45/100); 1698 <i>with brown clothes and a hanger by his side tip’t with silver</i>, West Riding (QS1). It could also refer to the loops on a belt from which the sword was hung, sometimes richly ornamented: 1612 <i>the girdles and hangers to be of blacke leather, and not such girdles as are called Northerne belts</i>, Scarborough (NYRO47/50); 1616 <i>furnashed with ... a sworde girdle & hyngers</i>, Brandsby (NYRO44/113) and more generally to hooks from which items could be hung, as in a kitchen: 1634 <i>a shelf and the hingers</i>, Elmswell (DW235).

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