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gallows
[ gal-ohz, -uhz ]
noun
- a wooden frame, consisting of a crossbeam on two uprights, on which condemned persons are executed by hanging.
- a similar structure from which something is suspended.
- execution by hanging:
a crime deserving of the gallows.
- Also called gallows bitts. Nautical. a support on the deck of a vessel, generally one of two or more, consisting of a crosspiece on two uprights, for spars, boats, etc.
gallows
/ ˈɡæləʊz /
noun
- a wooden structure usually consisting of two upright posts with a crossbeam from which a rope is suspended, used for hanging criminals
- any timber structure resembling this, such as (in Australia and New Zealand) a frame for hoisting up the bodies of slaughtered cattle
- the gallowsexecution by hanging
Word History and Origins
Origin of gallows1
Word History and Origins
Origin of gallows1
Example Sentences
The words seemed to echo from a shadowy past, where justice was twisted into a theater of cruelty, where the gallows were strung with piano wire on meat hooks.
In Syria's case that could mean the gallows, or a firing squad, or indefinite incarceration in some underground cell.
His exposing of human rights abuses earned him not only international renown and a knighthood, but also a bitter resentment of colonial powers which would eventually lead him to the gallows.
The last woman believed to have been executed in England for witchcraft may have avoided the gallows, according to new research.
The ghostly story tells the tale of a sailor murdered by three criminals whose bodies were strung up on a hanging gallows as a warning to passing travellers.
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