hempstretch

Noun

 * 1) A person who has been hanged.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 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.