1736 Canting Dictionary / H / HEMPEN-Widow [person]
one whose Husband was hanged.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Hempen Widow in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).
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