Noun
1. decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window;
"the cold castle walls were covered with hangings"2. a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead;
"in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment"3. the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely);
"there was a small ceremony for the hanging of the portrait"