"hang-by" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From hang + by.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
          "text": "; I am not afraid of you nor them neither, your hang-by's here. You must have your poets, and your potlings; your solados and foolados; to follow you up and down the city",
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        "A dependent; a hanger-on."
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        "(derogatory, obsolete) A dependent; a hanger-on."
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