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HEMPEN-Widow,

one whose Husband was hanged.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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HELL
HELL-born-babe
HELL-Cat
HELL-Driver
HELL-Hound
HEMPEN-Widow
HEN-peckt-Frigot
HENPECT-Husband
HICK
HIGH-Flyers
HIGHJINKS

Nearby:

Hempen Widow in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).