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▪ I. hanging, vbl. n.
    (ˈhæŋɪŋ)
    [f. hang v. + -ing¹.]
    The action of the verb hang.
    1. The action of suspending or fact of being suspended; suspension.

c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 24 Bi him [ligament] þe membris..schulden ben y-teied, þe whiche þat neden hangynge. 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 446 A foolish hanging of thy nether Lippe. 1667 Lond. Gaz. No. 136/4 The New Invention of Major Thorny Franke, for the hanging of Coppers. 1703 Moxon Mech. Exerc. 153 The Hanging of Doors, Windows, etc. 1711 Addison Spect. No. 81 ¶2 Like the hanging out of false Colours.

2. The action of putting to death on the gallows, etc., or the fact of being so put to death.

a 1300 Cursor M. 22860 Thoru þair aun gilt Wit hefding, draght, or hanging spilt. 1460 J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 190 Where Thomas was juged to drawying, hanging, and hedyng. 1562 J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 129 Weddyng and hangyng are desteny. 1601 Shakes. Twel. N. i. v. 20 Many a good hanging preuents a bad marriage. 1738 Swift Pol. Convers. 78 'Twas her Fate; they say, Marriage and Hanging go by Destiny. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 677 That, of all sights, that in which the English most delighted was a hanging.

3. A downward slope or curve; esp. in Shipbuilding (see quots.)

1684 R. H. School Recreat. 83 The chusing out your Ground, and preventing the Windings, Hangings, and many turning Advantages of the same, whether..open wide Places..or in close Bowling-Alleys. 1711 W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 160 Hanging; the opposite to Snying, when the middle of the Plank appears lower than the Ends, but circular. c 1850 Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 123 Hanging, declining in the middle part from a horizontal right line, as the hanging of the decks, hanging of the sheer, etc.

4. fig. † a. Dependence. Obs.

c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. xxxiii. (1869) 21 For þat oon hath his comyng out, and his hanginge, of þat ooþer.

b. The condition of being in suspense or left over for an indefinite time; also hanging-up.

1638 Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. II.) 86 If..pretenders avoid a sudden falling, it is by enduring a tedious hanging, receiving perpetuall affronts. 1890 Pall Mall G. 20 June 7/1 This measure authorized the ‘hanging up’ of bills by either House provided..that the consent of the Crown were obtained. 1892 Ibid. 27 Jan. 2/2 A hanging-up resolution is never satisfactory.

5. concr. a. Something that hangs or is suspended; something attached, an appendage; also fig. (Usually in pl. Also hangings-on.)

1549 Latimer 2nd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 55 As it foloweth in the texte wyth the appurtenaunces and hangynges on. 1552 ― Serm. in Lincoln i. 63 These be sequels or hangings on, wherewith the chiefe dish is poudred. 1611 Shakes. Cymb. iii. iii. 63 In one night A Storme..Shooke downe my mellow hangings: nay my Leaues. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Isl. iii. vii, Many a cragge dependeth; Like to the hangings of some rockie masse.

b. Iron-founding. = scaffolding vbl. n. 2 a.

1878 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. XII. 202 The modern system of putting the material round the in-wall and allowing it to roll to the centre, has diminished the heat at the in-wall of the furnace and greatly reduced the hanging and scaffolding. 1948 G. R. Bashforth Manuf. Iron & Steel I. x. 165 Hanging, which is sometimes referred to as wedging, is similar to scaffolding, but is due to carbon deposition.

6. spec. a. A piece of drapery with which a bedstead, the walls of a room, etc., are hung; a curtain or the like; also the material for this.

1431 in Rogers Agric. & Prices III. 550/3 Hanging to hall with a border of Cowchye work 11s. 1530 Palsgr. 129/1 Hangyng for a bedde, accoustrement de lict. 1663 Cowley Verses & Ess., Country Mouse, Behind a Hanging in a spacious room. 1758 Johnson Idler No. 13 ¶10 A hanging that is to represent Cranmer in the flames. 1836 B. Corney Bayeux Tapestry 3 A piece of hanging which belongs to the cathedral church of Bayeux.

b. pl. The pieces, folds, or masses of tapestry or other stuff, with which a room or bed is hung; also extended to wall-paper (paper-hangings).

1485–6 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 46 Hangings of Say to hang aboute the Ship, oon of vj peces. 1566 Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 71 Quishions for his house and hanginges for his bedd. 1593 Donne Sat. iv. (R.), Though his face be as ill As theirs, which in old hangings whip Christ. 1673 Dryden Marr. à la Mode iv. iv, No more than a picture in the hangings. 1716 Lond. Gaz. No. 5434/3 Paper painted, or stained for Hangings. 1877 M. M. Grant Sun-Maid i, He pushed back the hangings as he continued speaking.

7. A steep slope or declivity of a hill. Now local.

c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) ix. 34 Þai er in þe hingand [en le declin] of þe hill. 1489 Caxton Faytes of A. ii. xii. 113 Went vpon the hangynge of a montayne for to byholde. 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. xcviii. 140 Ladies Mantell groweth..in the hanging of hilles. 1622 Bacon Hen. VII Mor. & Hist. Wks. (Bohn) 332 Upon the brow or hanging of a hill. 1888 G. Venables Garianonum Greetings ii. 3, ‘The Hanging’, which forms part of the Garden and Grounds of the Rectory here. 1888 Berksh. Gloss. s.v., E'll vind moor partridges on the hangin' yander'n anywher.

8. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 2) hanging day, hanging matter, hanging time; (sense 6) hanging-cloth, hanging-paper; hanging clamp (see quot.); hanging committee, the committee who decide the hanging of pictures in an Exhibition (e.g. that of the Royal Academy); hanging-head, -post, -stile, the post or upright which bears the hinges of a door or gate; † hanging-holder, an attendant; hanging-needle, a seine-needle, used in attaching a fishing-net to the cork-line and foot-line; hanging-press, a press in which clothes are hung.

c 1850 Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 123 *Hanging clamp, a semicircular iron with a foot at each end, to receive nails, by which it is fixed to any part of the ship to hang stages to, etc.

c 1500 Melusine xxvi. 206 Cyteseyns had hanged theire houses withoutforth toward the stretes, with theire best and rychest *hangyng clothes.

1817 Sporting Mag. L. 33 A painter having some interest with one of the *Hanging Committee. 1866 Reader 12 May 476 The hanging committee could not possibly have found artists to occupy them so worthily.

1795 tr. Moritz's Travels 60 Last Tuesday was (what is here called) *hanging day... I only heard tolling at a distance the death-bell of the sacrifice to justice. 1806 Balance (Hudson, N.Y.) 11 Nov. 355 (Th.), Next Friday [the newspaper] promises to make its debut. Friday—that's hanging day—but no matter. 1857 D. G. Rossetti Let. June (1965) I. 325 Friday is the hanging day.

1888 Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., *Hanging-head, same as Hanch; the upright part of a gate, to which the hinges are attached.

1624 Fletcher Wife for a month i. ii, You scurvy usher..thou poor base *hanging-holder.

1755 Johnson s.v., A *hanging matter. 1861 Sala Dutch Pict., Ship-Chandler (L.), It's a hanging matter to touch a penny's worth of them.

1752 Lady Luxborough Let. to Shenstone 19 July, My *hanging-paper is arrived, and the cracks of the ceiling have been filled.

1792 Trans. Soc. Arts X. 30 The limb of a Chestnut..was put down as a *hanging post for a gate, and carried the gate..fifty-two years.

1743 Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 174 They broke..the *hanging-press. 1845 A. M. Hall Whiteboy xi. 93 What in Ireland is called a hanging press, in which ladies suspend their dresses.

1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 225 *Hanging Stile, the stile of a door or shutter to which the hinge is fastened; also, a narrow stile fixed to the jamb on which a door or shutter is frequently hung.

▪ II. hanging, ppl. a. (prep.)
    (ˈhæŋɪŋ)
    [f. as prec. + -ing².]
    That hangs.
    1. a. Supported above, and not below; suspended, pendulous; projecting downwards; drooping.

1483 Cath. Angl. 186/2 Hyngynge, pendulus, suspendens. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 115 b, The eares..if they bee great and hanging, are signes of a Jade. 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Himacas, hanging beds. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 690 The land there is hollow and hanging. 1626 Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 11 A hanging cabben, a Hamacke. 1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 31/1 Huge pieces of hanging Stone. 1882 Shorthouse J. Inglesant II. 228 It faded more and more into the hanging darkness.

b. hanging sleeve, a loose open sleeve hanging down from the arm; formerly worn by children and young persons. Hence hanging-sleeved adj.

1659 Gauden Tears Ch. 580 The Popes..being then in their bibs and hanging-sleeves. 1683 Apol. Prot. France iv. 46 Children..in their Nurse's arms, or not out of their Hanging-sleeves. 1742 Richardson Pamela IV. 301 When I was a Girl, or when I was in Hanging-sleeves. 1748 ― Clarissa Wks. 1883 VIII. 406 The hanging-sleeved, go-carted property of hired slaves. 1826 Scott Woodst. v. 1841 Lane Arab. Nts. I. 71 In which case they kiss the end of the hanging-sleeve.

2. a. Leaning over, overhanging; steep, declivitous.

a 1350 Guy Warw. (A.) 5270 Þan com þer bi an hongend hille..Guyoun. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxiii. 222 They..met the baillol and his companye at an hongyng bought of the more in a streit passage. 1513 Douglas æneis iii. iv. 40 Vndir a hingand hewch. 1598 Florio, Silo..he that hath a skowling looke..or hanging eie-browes. 1626 Bacon Sylva §600 To bring Water, from some Hanging Grounds, where there are Springs. 1787 Winter Syst. Husb. 99 The branches, or smaller drains..are cut a-cross the ground with a hanging level. 1847 James J. Marston Hall vii, The dark man with the heavy hanging brow.

b. Of a wood, garden, walk, etc.: Situated on a steep slope, top of a wall, etc. so as to hang over or appear to do so.
Hanging Gardens (of Babylon), a transl. of L. pensiles horti (Quintus Curtius), κρεµαστοὶ κῆποι (Plutarch, etc.).

c 1170 Newminster Cartul. (Surtees) 75 Le Hangande scauhe. 1487 Ibid. 263 Hanhand bray. 1705 Addison Italy 315 We call hanging Gardens, such as are planted on the Top of the House. 1712 ― Spect. No. 415 ¶3 The Walls of Babylon, its hanging Gardens. 1753 Hanway Trav. (1762) II. i. ix. 48 They abound in lofty trees, and different kinds of hanging walks. 1791 F. Burney Diary 7 Aug., Hills..mostly covered with hanging woods. 1815 J. Fernie Hist. Dunfermline 16 On the sides or slopes of the mound, and at the back of the houses are hanging gardens. 1871 L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. i. (1894) 5 Its lovely grouping of rock and hanging meadow. 1931 H. Crane Let. 21 Sept. (1965) 381 Dense tropical foliage and veritable hanging gardens. 1971 R. Russell tr. Ahmad's Shore & Wave i. 13 He had conjured up a picture of the hanging gardens of Malabar Hill in Bombay, overlooking the sea.

† 3. a. Remaining in suspense or abeyance; pending.

c 1460 in Arnolde Chron. (1811) 192 The lebel or artycles of the cause ayenst hym before you in the courte of cristiante moued and hanging. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. ii. 16 Both stand sencelesse..Forgetfull of the hanging victory.

† b. Pending, during; orig. with a n. in absolute construction; when placed before the n., liable to be treated as a prep.; cf. during, and Fr. pendant; this hanging (= Fr. cependant), pending this, meanwhile. Obs.

a 1420 Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2654, I rede also how that, hangyng a stryfe Bitwene Kyng Porrus and a lord clept Fabrice. c 1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon i. 50 This hangynge, the duke..came afore the kynge. 1491 ― Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) i. xciii. 127 b/1 Hangynge this tyme was a philosophre in the sayd cyte. c 1500 3 Kings Sons 91 This tyme hangyng, ye may leue garrisons in this Reaume. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 151 This matter thus hangyng, the king [etc.]. 1621 H. Elsing Debates Ho. Lords (Camden) 52 The patent was gyven up, hanging the suyte. 1628 Coke On Litt. 13 a, Hanging the process, the defendant conveyeth the land.

4. Having a downward cast of countenance; gloomy-looking. (Often with play on hang v. 3.)

1603 Shakes. Meas. for M. iv. ii. 34 A good fauor you haue, but that you haue a hanging look. 1607 Middleton Michaelmas Term iv. iii, Like a hanging morn, a little waterish awhile. 1766 T. Amory J. Buncle (1825) III. 79 He had the most hanging look I have ever seen. 1855 Browning Fra Lippo 308 Have you noticed, now, Your cullion's hanging face?

5. In transitive sense: That causes (persons) to be hanged; addicted to hanging. Chiefly hanging judge. Also transf.

1848 Thackeray Van. Fair xlii, Celebrated as a hanging judge. 1929 J. B. Priestley Good Companions ii. iv. 339 Your Bruddersfordian is a hanging judge of anything that costs money. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ix. 178 The worst criminal..is morally superior to a hanging judge. 1963 Times 9 Mar. 9/6 He became an advocate of reform and a hanging judge of the powers that be in politics, commerce and agriculture. 1972 M. Gee In my Father's Den 121 Price..is a combination public relations man and hanging judge.

6. In various specific collocations or combinations, as hanging ball (Golf), a ball lying on a downward slope; hanging barrel: see quot.; † hanging basin, a basin with a hole in the bottom suspended so that the water might run from it into another vessel below; hanging bird = hangbird; hanging bits, small plates of iron fixed to the upright iron bar of a stocking-frame and having projecting studs which come into contact with the caster-backs; hanging-block (see quot. a 1884); hanging-bowl Archæol., name given to certain Celtic or Saxon bowls that were suspended from the roof; hanging bridge, a suspension-bridge; see also quot. a 1877; hanging buttress, ‘a buttress supported upon a corbel, and not standing solid on the foundation’ (Webster 1864); hanging-coal, -side, -wall (Mining), that which hangs or leans over the working; hanging-compass (see quot. a 1865); † hanging-dog a. = hang-dog; hanging drop Biol., a drop of liquid suspended from a cover glass fitting on to a special transparent cell or microscope slide, by means of which living microorganisms or cells in the drop may be examined microscopically; usu. attrib.; hanging five, ten Surfing, used, freq. attrib., with reference to the placing of all the toes of one foot (or of both feet) over the front edge of a surfboard; hanging gale: see gale; hanging glacier (see quot. 1940); hanging glider = hang-glider (see hang-); hanging guard, a guard in fencing, esp. sabre-play: see quots.; also known as ‘high seconde’; hanging inden(ta)tion, (a) Printing (see indentation 3 and indention 2); (b) Librarianship (see quot. 1941); † hanging jack, a roasting jack hung before a fire; hanging knee (see quot.); † hanging laver = hanging basin; hanging lie Golf, the position of a ball when it rests on ground sloping downwards in the direction of play; † hanging lock, a padlock; hanging-moss, a lichen or moss that hangs in long fringes from the limbs of trees; hanging paragraph = hanging indent(at)ion; hanging pawn Chess, one of two advanced pawns which are side by side with no pawns on the adjacent files that can support them; hanging press, a sliding book-press or case in a library which hangs, supported above, in front of a fixed press, so that it can be drawn out to permit access to the shelves behind; also called a sliding press; hanging shelf, a suspended shelf; hanging side (see hanging-coal); hanging steps (see quot. 1904); hanging ten, see hanging five above; hanging valley, a valley which is abruptly cut across by the steep side of a larger valley or a sea-cliff; hanging valve, a hinged valve which falls open by the action of gravity; † hanging-waggon, a coach hung on springs; hanging wall see hanging-coal; hanging wardrobe, (a) a wardrobe designed to accommodate clothes hanging at full length; (b) a row of hooks on which clothes may be hung.

1857 Chambers' Inform. II. 695/2 *Hanging balls..are caused by a little rise of the ground close behind the ball, from whatever cause.

1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 120 [A] *Hanging Barrel..[is] a going barrel whose arbor is supported only at the upper end.

1558 Bury Wills (Camden) 150 Syxe *hanginge basons of latton, iij wasshinge basons of latton.

1759 B. Stillingfl. Econ. Nat. in Misc. Tracts (1762) 92 The *hanging bird..fixes it[s nest] upon the bough of some tree hanging over the water. 1868 Wood Homes without H. xiii. 241 The Baltimore Oriole goes by many names..such as Hanging Bird, from the beautiful pensile nest which it makes.

1829 Glover Hist. Derby I. 242 In 1714..Hardy added the caster-back and *hanging-bits [to the stocking-frame].

a 1865 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. (1867) 366 *Hanging-blocks..are sometimes fitted with a long and short leg, and lash over the eyes of the topmast rigging; when under, they are made fast to a strap. a 1884 Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 436/2 Hanging block, a block through which the top-sail tye is rove, then through the tye-block on the yard, and the standing part made fast to the mast head.

1940 Burlington Mag. Dec. 180/2 The two bronze *hanging-bowls (believed to be lamps) with enamelled escutcheons and mounts. 1956 I. S. Maxwell in D. L. Linton Sheffield 122 The presence of three hanging-bowls from this same area may perhaps indicate that Celtic art survived for a long time in this remote district. 1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon England i. 14 In the case of..hanging-bowls, some of the richest work culturally of the whole settlement period may be attributed to Celtic craftsmen.

1815 Niles' Weekly Register IX. 92/1 The main post-road..crosses the Brandywine on a *hanging bridge. a 1877 Knight Dict. Mech. II. 1060/2 Hanging-bridge. i. A hollow, vertical partition depending from the bottom of a boiler and serving to deflect the flame... 2. a. A suspension bridge. b. A truss-frame bridge.

1881 Raymond Mining Gloss., *Hanging-coal, a portion of the coal-seam which, by the removal of another portion, has had its natural support removed, as in holing.

a 1865 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. (1867) 366 *Hanging-compass, a compass so constructed as to hang with its face down⁓wards.

1667 J. Lacy Sauny the Scot v. Dram. Wks. (1875) 386 Looks he not like a disbanded officer with that *hanging-dog look there?

1885 Jrnl. R. Microsc. Soc. V. 117 The ‘*hanging drop’..has some great..disadvantages. 1892 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. CLXXXIII. 130 Cultures in hanging drops, made in sterilised cells under the microscope. Ibid. 136, I..prepared a hanging drop culture of this. 1908 Practitioner Aug. 264 By observation of hanging-drop preparations from growth in glucose broth. 1970 Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xviii. 13/1 The presence of flagella is usually inferred by observing..motility in hanging drop preparations of fluid cultures.

1963 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 5 May 12/5 *Hanging five, five toes over the nose of the board for maximum speed. 1965 P. L. Dixon Compl. Bk. Surfing vi. 78 Riding forward is a term used here to cover all sorts of nose-riding styles like hanging five and ten toes over.

1894 J. W. Gregory in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. L. 515 The ‘corrie’ or ‘*hanging glaciers’. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 23/1 Hanging glaciers (i.e., glaciers perched on steep slopes) often discharge themselves over steep rock-faces, the snout breaking off at intervals. 1940 C. M. Rice Dict. Geol. Terms 168/1 Hanging glacier, a glacier of small size on so steep a slope that the ice breaks off and falls from its lower end.

1932 J. Manchot tr. Kronfeld's On Gliding & Soaring 254 ‘*Hanging Glider’ is the literal translation of the German ‘Hängegleiter’. 1956 Flight LXIX. 270/1 This also was a ‘hanging’ glider.

1707 Hope's New Meth. Fencing 12 Of the advantage that the *Hanging-Guard hath over all, or most of the other Guards. 1889 A. Hutton Cold Steel 8 The Hanging Guard..is formed by dropping the point to a level with the opponent's right hip, raising the hand as high as the head, the edge to be uppermost—and looking at the opponent under the shell of the sword. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 3 July 3/1 The old hanging guard has been discarded, and in its place a position of ‘engage,’..has been adopted.

1927 Amer. Speech II. 239/2 The *hanging indention is built just the opposite of a paragraph. 1941 A.L.A. Catalog Rules (ed. 2) p. xxv, Hanging indention, a form of indention in which the first line begins at author indention and succeeding lines at title indention. 1961 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 161/1 Hanging indentation.

1660 Pepys Diary 4 Feb., They were buying of a *hanging-jack to roast birds on.

c 1850 Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 123 *Hanging knee, those knees against the sides whose arms hang vertically or perpendicularly.

1462 Test. Ebor. ii. (Surtees) 256 A *hangyng laver with the halling, a cesterne. 1483 Act. 1 Rich. III, c. 12 §2 No Merchant Stranger..shall bring into this Realme..hanging candlesticks..hanging lauers. 1493 Bury Wills (Camden) 82 My best hangyng lauour stondyng in my parlour.

1909 P. A. Vaile Mod. Golf pl. 96 The stance and address for a *hanging lie.

1424 in Rogers Agric. & Prices III. 549/1, 6 *hanging locks 1/6. 1495–7 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 261 Hangyng lokes to the Storehouse dore. 1497 in Ld. High Treas. Acc. Scot. 2 Nov., Tua hingand lokkis to the thesaure kist.

1959 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. (ed. 2) 140 *Hanging..paragraph. 1964 T. L. Kinsey Audio-Typing & Electric Typewriters vii. 66 New paragraph to be typed as a hanging paragraph.

1927 Brit. Chess Mag. XLVII. 269/2 The fact that Black has completed his development so early with no other disadvantage than being saddled with the ‘*hanging Pawns’ goes to show that the nightmare..is ended. 1943 R. Fine Ideas Chess Openings iv. 131 The hanging Pawns need not be feared by White because of his excellent development.

1726 Swift Gulliver I. ii. ii. 179 The Cradle was put into a small Drawer..and the Drawer placed upon a *Hanging-shelf for fear of the Rats. 1825 J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 188 A hanging shelf..loaded with cheeses; ropes of onions; dried apples, [etc.]. 1881 S. P. M{supc}Lean Cape Cod Folks ii. 31 In one dark recess I came into forcible contact with a hanging-shelf of pies. 1962 Williamsburg Reproductions Catal. 12 An approved reproduction of a hanging shelf of English design, about 1760.

1881 Raymond Mining Gloss., *Hanging-side, or Hanging-wall, or Hanger, the wall or side over the vein.

1876 Notes Building Construction II. 108 *Hanging steps are fixed at one end only. 1904 Goodchild & Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 279/2 Hanging steps, stone steps having one end built into a wall.

1962 Austral. Women's Weekly Suppl. 24 Oct. 3/2 *Hanging ten, a trick method of riding with toes tucked over the front of the surfboard. 1963 Observer 13 Oct. 15/4 The critical ‘hanging ten’ stance, in which the surfer speeds across the wave with his 10 toes actually hanging over the nose of the 10-ft. surfboard.

1900 W. M. Davis in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. XXIX. 288 In the spring of 1899, I sent a brief note..to..Mr. G. K. Gilbert of Washington, telling him that all the lateral valleys seemed to be ‘hung up’ above the floors of the trunk valleys. His reply was long in coming..and he suggested that such laterals should be called ‘*hanging valleys’—a term I have since then adopted. He fully agreed that hanging valleys presented unanswerable testimony for strong glacial erosion. 1932 Auden Orators i. 22 Arguments from the other side of the lake on the formation of hanging valleys. 1938 Sat. Rev. Lit. 1 Jan. 17/3 We go..to hear a well-informed ranger explain how a glacier makes a U-shaped valley, leaving hanging valleys to dump waterfalls over the edge. 1952 H. W. Tilman Nepal Himalaya ii. xii. 149 In a sort of hanging valley, where the slope eased off..we began searching for a camp site. 1963 D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation v. 126 It may have tributaries, but these are often ‘hanging valleys’ with waterfalls. 1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 522 Interesting examples of hanging valleys may also be seen entering fjords, notably in Norway and New Zealand. Hanging valleys also occur sometimes along non-glaciated coasts where the rate of cliff retreat is higher than the adjustment potential of the smaller streams, e.g., in the chalk cliffs in the south of England. They are also to be seen along youthful fault scarps.

1585 Higins tr. Junius' Nomencl. 266/2 Pilentum..an *hanging waggon: a stately waggon for ladies and gentlewomen: a coch. 1777 Hoole Comenius' Vis. World (ed. 12) 109 Great persons are carried..in a hanging-waggon, which is called a coach.

1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis ii. i. 79 When the Miners dig down.., then the roof, i.e. the upper, the *hanging wall, or incumbent wall of the Lode or Fissure, is..over their heads. 1875 Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 782 *Hanging-wall..the rock which hangs over the lode. 1883 Standard 20 Jan. 1/5 The hanging wall is composed of granite. 1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 31 Oct. 6/3 The quartz in the hanging wall here assayed {pstlg}39.60 and that on the footwall {pstlg}4.80. 1970 W. Smith Gold Mine iv. 9 Rod pondered the unfortunate choice of mining terminology that had named the roof of an excavation ‘the hanging wall’.

1896 Heal & Son Catal. 169 The ‘Eversfield’ Suite..consisting of 2 ft. 9 in. *Hanging Wardrobe, [etc.]. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 278/2 Hanging Wardrobe, in oak, teak and mahogany—6 hooks. 1972 Country Life 25 May (Suppl.) 37/1 Full length, Hanging Wardrobe in the Chippendale style. It is 4 feet 3 inches wide, 7 feet 2 inches high and 21 inches deep.

Hence † ˈhangingly adv., in a hanging manner.

1548–67 Thomas Ital. Gram., In pendente, hangeyngly, or in doubte.