hempstretchn.
A person hanged. Cf. stretchhemp at hemp n. 3a. Apparently an isolated use.
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a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 369 One of the men who were hanging..asked him..to cut the rope. He did so, and Hempstretch fell on his feet.
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