"hangment" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1871, Sheridan Le Fanu, The Haunted Baronet",
          "text": "But 'twas his grandsire was talked o', not him; and 'twould play the hangment wi' me doun here, if 'twas thought there was stories like that passin' in the George and Dragon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, John Edward Patterson, The Passage of the Barque Sappho, page 243",
          "text": "At the same time, a question from him as to what the hangment the men had to do with what he did would have shown that his mind was becoming healthy again, and thus have relieved my anxiety, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "The devil; the dickens; mischief."
      ],
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        [
          "devil",
          "devil"
        ],
        [
          "dickens",
          "dickens"
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          "mischief",
          "mischief"
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        "(UK, regional, obsolete) The devil; the dickens; mischief."
      ],
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        "obsolete",
        "regional"
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  "word": "hangment"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Regional English"
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        {
          "ref": "1871, Sheridan Le Fanu, The Haunted Baronet",
          "text": "But 'twas his grandsire was talked o', not him; and 'twould play the hangment wi' me doun here, if 'twas thought there was stories like that passin' in the George and Dragon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, John Edward Patterson, The Passage of the Barque Sappho, page 243",
          "text": "At the same time, a question from him as to what the hangment the men had to do with what he did would have shown that his mind was becoming healthy again, and thus have relieved my anxiety, […]",
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        "The devil; the dickens; mischief."
      ],
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          "devil",
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        ],
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          "dickens",
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        ],
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          "mischief",
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        "(UK, regional, obsolete) The devil; the dickens; mischief."
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