fra: pendaison

Information
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Meaning
means	(noun) a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead; "in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment" hanging
means	(noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely); "there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait" hanging, dangling, suspension