hang-choice

The Century Dictionary: The Encyelopedic Lexicon of the English Language · 1887 · p. 51

(hang’cho is), n. The position of a person who is compelled to choose between two evils. [Scotch.] Thope St. Patrick sung better than Blatter gowl’s precentor, or it would be hang-chotce between the poet and the psalmist. Scott, Antiquary, xxx.