noun a bridle iron.
2. hanger ·noun a steep, wooded declivity.
3. hanger ·noun that by which a thing is suspended.
4. hanger ·noun one who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
5. hanger ·noun a strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
6. hanger ·noun a part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. ·see ·illust. of countershaft.
7. hanger ·noun that which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.