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gallows
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gallows \Gal"lows\, n. sing.; pl. Gallowsesor Gallows. [OE. galwes, pl., AS. galga, gealga, gallows, cross; akin to D. galg gallows, OS. & OHG. galgo, G. galgen, Icel. g[=a]lgi, Sw. & Dan. galge, Goth. galga a cross. Etymologically and historically considered, gallows is a noun in the plural number, but it is used as a singular, and hence is preceded by a; as, a gallows.]
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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.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows.
--Esther vii. 10.If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows.
--Shak.O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses!
--Shak. A wretch who deserves the gallows. [R.]
--Shak.(Print.) The rest for the tympan when raised.
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pl. A pair of suspenders or braces. [Colloq.] Gallows bird, a person who deserves the gallows. [Colloq.] Gallows bitts (Naut.), one of two or more frames amidships on deck for supporting spare spars; -- called also gallows, gallows top, gallows frame, etc. Gallows frame.
The frame supporting the beam of an engine.
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(Naut.) Gallows bitts.
Gallows tree, or
Gallow tree, the gallows.
At length him nail['e]d on a gallow tree.
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, Middle English galwe "gallows" (mid-13c.), from Old Norse galgi "gallows," or from Old English galga (Mercian), gealga (West Saxon) "gallows;" all from Proto-Germanic *galgon- "pole" (cognates: Old Frisian galga, Old Saxon galgo, Middle High German galge "gallows, cross," German Galgen "gallows," Gothic galga "cross"), from PIE *ghalgh- "branch, rod" (cognates: Lithuanian zalga "pole, perch," Armenian dzalk "pole"). In Old English, also used of the cross of the crucifixion. Plural because made of two poles. Gallows-tree is Old English galg-treow. Gallows humor (1881) translates German Galgenhumor.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging. Etymology 2
vb. (en-third-person singular of: gallow)
WordNet
n. instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging [syn: gallows tree, gallows-tree, gibbet, gallous]
Wikipedia
A gallows (or scaffold) is a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging, or as a means of torture before execution, as was used when being hanged, drawn and quartered.
A gallows is a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging.
Gallows may also refer to:
Gallows are an English hardcore punk band from Watford, Hertfordshire. The band was formed in 2005 after Laurent Barnard's previous band disbanded. Gallows' debut album, Orchestra of Wolves, was distributed in the United States by Epitaph Records, and they were subsequently signed to Warner Bros. Records for a £1 million album contract and recorded Grey Britain. The band has been particularly successful in the UK, with three songs charting on the UK Single Charts, and have been featured in magazines such as Kerrang!, Alternative Press and Rolling Stone.
Gallows is the third album by English hardcore punk band Gallows and the first full-length to feature new lead vocalist Wade Macneil, who replaced original frontman Frank Carter in August 2011, when Carter left to form new band Pure Love. It is also the last album to feature guitarist Steph Carter.
The album was produced, mixed and mastered by Spycatcher members Thomas Mitchener and Steve Sears at Watford's Broadfields Studio and was released on 10 September 2012 via the band's new label Venn Records in partnership with PIAS Recordings. The album will also be released and distributed in the United States through Bridge Nine Records and in Australia and New Zealand through Halfcut Records/ Shock Records.
Usage examples of "gallows".
When Orsini attempted to execute the sentence of death on the Emperor of the French, in obedience to the order of the Carbonari, of which the Emperor was a member, he was, if the theory of the origin of government in compact be true, no more an assassin than was the officer who executed on the gallows the rebel spies and incendiaries Beal and Kennedy.
In the centre of the page was a picture of a tall man with shoulders wide as the crosstree of a gallows, and a bald cannon-ball head that shone in the bright African sunshine.
He had stood beside Elbryan and Avelyn when that surely put him in line for the gallows.
She instructed me to say, however, in case you should ask, that what she previously knew could obtain your resignation, that what Giles knew could stretch you on the gallows, and that now she knows even more than Giles!
One Sunday Malania came home from church in her new dress and her new boots, and announced to her mistress that the gallows were being erected, and that the hangman was expected from Moscow on Wednesday.
Christian blode, lorde Materna cam that autumn to Danczk for to wreak al manner of fiercenesse, and eke to hank Claus Bartusch by the neck, at which tyme he set vp his passyng styffe peter for a gallows, whereat wondyrment was of alle the robboures and marchants.
I aim to trounce the local oystermen in the regatta, Elliott said, hooking his thumbs into his white gallowses.
American metropolis of the predynastic epoch his thoughts are cluttered with images of the gallows and electricity, slow evisceration and constant pain.
Phelippes, on solving it, immediately endorsed it with the gallows mark.
On gallows hangeth cold and dead Beneath the sky On gibbet high, They in a noose did swing him.
Christian sign, there is much reference to Mr. Snagsby whether he means Carrots, or the Colonel, or Gallows, or Young Chisel, or Terrier Tip, or Lanky, or the Brick.
I saw the gallows before me, for nobody would lend me the money, and they would not wait for my remittance from Venice to reach me.
Batavia, he had only escaped the gallows by flight--I had my own thoughts as to the similarity between his destiny and mine, but I did not reveal them.
His only fear was that they would not lead him to the murderer soon enough to save Roger Pawling from the gallows.
Hereupon four other shavelings entered, dragging before the confessor a poor wretch, who came about as willingly as he would to the gallows.