gallows
IPA: gˈæɫoʊz
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.
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Examples of "gallows" in Sentences
- The gallows and the pillory stood there.
- They installed a guillotine and a gallows.
- He was led to the gallows barefoot and naked.
- The place of execution was then the gallows at Gallows Corner.
- Filumena was hung on the gallows at the Fort Saskatchewan penitentiary.
- A picture of misery of a man stumbled in fetters on towards the gallows.
- The collosal blunder of that invasion actually began his road to the gallows.
- The only way to restore order was to erect the gallows and flog many soldiers.
- Two eyewitness to the recorded hanging differed on the location of the gallows.
- But its music now sounds just right for a certain recessionary mood bleary, frustrated, cranky, heartsick and gallows humored.