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noun. A device usually consisting of two upright posts supporting a crossbeam from which a noose is suspended and used for execution by hanging; a gallows tree.

noun. A similar structure used for supporting or suspending.

noun. Execution by hanging.

Very; exceedingly: as, gallows poor.

noun. Specifically, on the great sheep-raising stations of Australasia, a high wooden frame on which the carcasses of butchered cattle or sheep are suspended; a meat-gallows.

noun. A wooden frame on which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two posts and a cross-beam on the top, or of a single post with a projecting arm, from which the criminal is suspended by a rope fastened about his neck: a plural used as a singular, and having the double plural gallowses.

noun. A similar contrivance for suspending objects.

noun. Nautical, same as gallows-bitts.

noun. In coal-mining, a set of timbers consisting of two upright pieces or props and a bar or crown-tree laid across their tops so as to support the roof in a level or in any other excavation.

noun. In printing, a low trestle attached to old forms of hand printing-presses, to sustain the tympan.

noun. A central core formed of several cornstalks interlaced diagonally (while uncut) to serve as a stool or support for cut maize which is placed about it in forming a shock.

noun. plural A pair of braces for supporting the trousers. Also galluses.

noun. A wretch who deserves to be hanged; a gallows-bird.

Reckless; dashing; showy.

noun. A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything.

noun. A wretch who deserves the gallows.

noun. The rest for the tympan when raised.

noun. A pair of suspenders or braces.

noun. a person who deserves the gallows.

noun. one of two or more frames amidships on deck for supporting spare spars; -- called also gallows, gallows top, gallows frame, etc.

noun. Gallows bitts.

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noun. the gallows.

noun. Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging.

verb. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gallow.

noun. an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging

"The Germans call it gallows-humour; the French, 1'humour noir."

to cheat the gallows  

gallows bird  

instrument of execution  

gallous  gallows tree  gibbet  

hallows  mallows  

dungeon  gaol  gibbet  halter  hangman  

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