Meaning of crack-hemp | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.

obsolete

Examples

“Come hither, crackhempe.”

“Even in the Castle of Avenel thou wert a wild blood enough, but hadst thou been nurtured here, within a flight shot of the court, thou hadst been the veriest crack-hemp of a page that ever wore a feather in thy bonnet or steel by thy side: truly, I wish it may end week with thee.”

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