noun

• Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging.
• (colloquial, obsolete) A wretch who deserves to be hanged.
• (printing, obsolete) The rest for the tympan when raised.
• (colloquial, obsolete) Suspenders; braces.
• Any contrivance with posts and crossbeam for suspending objects.
• The main frame of a beam engine.