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(1):

(v. t.) To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.

(2):

(v. t.) To bend.

(3):

(n.) The hook with its eye, or the joint, on which a door, gate, lid, etc., turns or swings; a flexible piece, as a strip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on.

(4):

(n.) That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.

(5):

(v. i.) To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; - usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point.

(6):

(n.) One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hinge'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/hinge.html. 1828.
 
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