Hempen vs Heppen - What's the difference?
hempen | heppen |
Made of hemp.
* 1590: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen (vol. 1)
* 1891: Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company
Related to hempen ropes, i.e., to hanging as capital punishment.
* 1904: Rafael Sabatini, The Tavern Night
As adjectives the difference between hempen and heppen
is that hempen is made of hemp while heppen is neat; fit; comfortable.hempen
English
Adjective
(-)- 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 ...
- ... but rid himself also of the companionship of this ruffianly Sir Crispin, to whom no doubt a hempen justice would be meted.
