During the Salem witch trials in the late 1600s, women accused of witchcraft were executed by hanging, a gruesome process that involves a gallows, or wooden frame from which a person is hung by a rope.
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
instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging
pl.
of Gallows
n. sing.
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.
n. sing.
A wretch who deserves the gallows.
n. sing.
The rest for the tympan when raised.
n. sing.
A pair of suspenders or braces.
Gallows
So they hanged Haman on the gallows.
If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows.
O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses2.
At length him nail'82d on a gallow tree.
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.
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.
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