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English
Noun
hempstretch (uncountable)
- A person who has been hanged.
- Synonyms: hempseed, gallows bird
- 1850, António Vieira (translated), Sermoens:
- Then one of the men who were hanging there, asked him for Christian charity to cut the rope. He did so, and Hempstretch fell on his feet: and, thanking him for the benefit which he had received, desired that he would take him behind him, because he must accompany him in that journey.
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