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• Hempen Adjective
  1. Made of hemp.
     • In fowle reproch of knighthoods faire degree, / About his neck an hempen rope he weares, / That with his glistring armes does ill agree;.
     • A quiet land is this -- a land where the slow-moving Basque, with his flat biretta-cap, his red sash and his hempen sandals, tills his scanty farm ..
  2. Related to hempen ropes, i.e., to hanging as capital punishment.
     • But rid himself also of the companionship of this ruffianly Sir Crispin, to whom no doubt a hempen justice would be meted.