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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Hingar, Hinger, n. Also: hinger, -eir, hyngar, -air; hynger; heingeir. [f. Hing v. Cf. Hangar n.]

1. A device or contrivance by which anything is hung. 1506 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. II. 152.
Schorne and kerfit werk … with thre gret hyngaris and knoppis 1542 Acts & Decr. I. 140 b.
Ane dosane of hingaris of arrowis 1543 Treas. Acc. VIII. 190.
Deliverit … to be hingerris and drawerris to the polk … ane unce fyne grey sewing silk 1595 Edinb. Test. XXVIII. 294 b.
Twa weying balkis with thair burdis & hingeris 1609 Hilderstoun Silver Mines MS. I. 167.
Aik tymber … to mak new balkis and hingaris at the melting furnace a1646 Wedderb. Voc. (1709) 8.
Cardines, the hingers of a door

b. A (decorated) loop or strap attached to a belt, originally for carrying a sword. 1575 Edinb. Test. III. 362 b.
xxxv blak beltis with hingaris 1592 Thanes of Cawdor 214.
Ane veluet belt without hingeris 1597 Edinb. Test. XXX. 161.
Aucht beltis with hingaris of welwet 1621 Elgin Rec. I. 240.
[They] reft frome him … the hingaris and skabberd of his sword 1639 Acts V. 283/1.
The imbrodereris craving restraint of the importatioune of imbroderit work … except for beltis and hingeris a1689 Cleland Poems iii. 2.
And cooks had need of cleanly fingers, And dukes of lustie strong purse hingers

2. A pendant ornament or trinket. 1464 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II. 166.
Item v chenȝeit hyngaris anamilit cum v perllis 1488 Treas. Acc. I. 81.
A collare of gold maid with eliphantis and a grete hinger at it Ib. 84.
A smal chenȝe with ane hinger set with diamantis 1513 Doug. x. iii. 35.
The crownell pyght, or rych hynger, Quhilk doys the nek array c 1570 Maxwell Mem. 139.
Ane hyngair of gold … , with ane pykter in it 1610 Edinb. Test. XLVI. 74.
Tua hingeris of gold for the earis sett with diamondis 1649 Wemyss Chart. 233.
My diamond hingeir and the topais heingeir 1675 Carnegie Lett. 358.
An litell hinger sett about with stones

b. Hingaris at (for) luggis, ear-rings. 1578 Inv. Wardrobe 266.
Tuentie nyne hingaris at lugis of divers fassonis 1593 Edinb. Test. XXV. 160 b.
Four hingeris for luggis price of the haill four crouneis

3. A hanging drapery or piece of tapestry. 1532 M. Works Acc. II. 53.
Clekis for hyngaris in the Kingis chalmer 1531 Bell. Boece II. 382.
Mony precious hyngaris, in quhilkis war the history of Hercules maist curiouslie wrocht 1542 Reg. Privy S. II. 718/2.
Kepar and rewlar of … our soverane lordis hingaris and tapessery within his realme 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 117.
They spoyled my lord Regentis ludgene, and tuike vp ... his hinger about his hous, with some cannabie bedis a1578 Pitsc. I. 368/8.
He … commandit hir to tak quhat hingaris or tapistrie warkis … as scho pleissit 1638 Adamson Muses Thr. 7.
His cabinet … richly deck'd with curious hingers 1665 Lauder Jrnl. 151.
As the Daufin is coming thorough the roomes he begines to misse their hingers

4. A hanging beam separating horses in a stable. 1523 Treas. Acc. V. 221.
For v sparris … to be hingaris betwix the hors in the south stable

5. In mining: The layer of rock over the lode or vein of ore, the 'roof'. (Cf. e.m.E. (1631) hanger id.).  See Lig(g)er n.