| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hempen fever | Literature | Death on the gallows, the rope being made of hemp. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Hempen fever | Slang in 1811 | HEMPEN FEVER. A man who was hanged is said to have died of a hempen fever; and, in Dorsetshire, to have been stabbed with a Bridport dagger; Bridport being a place famous for manufacturing hemp into cords. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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