The widow of a man who has been hanged. (See above.)
“Of a hempen widow the kid forlorn.”
Ainsworth: Jack Sheppard.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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