Hanging.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A basin, bowl, trough, or cistern to wash in.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    In heraldry, a colter or plowshare when used as a bearing.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    Either of two species of algæ. of the genus Porphyra, P. laciniata and P. vulgaris, known in Ireland and Scotland as sloke or Sloakan.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A dish composed of one of the above algæ or of some similar seaweed. See laver-bread.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    Figuratively, the baptismal font; the spiritual regeneration of baptism; any cleansing of the spirit.