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hanging (adj.)
late 12c., present participle adjective from
hang
(v.).
Hanging gardens
(of Babylon), one of the wonders of the world, is Latin
pensiles horti
, Greek
kremastoi kepoi
.
Hanging judge
first recorded 1848.