hemp-widow

English

Noun

hemp-widow (plural hemp-widows)

  1. A widow whose spouse was hanged.
    • 2022, Thomas B. Costain, For My Great Folly:
      We're going over! There'll be a hemp-widow in Spain this night, or I'll be a dead man myself!"
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