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Gallows :: Gallows (n. sing.) The rest for the tympan when raised.

Gallowses :: Gallowses (pl. ) of Gallow.

Gallows :: 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..

Gibbet :: Gibbet (n.) A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning..

Hangdog :: Hangdog (n.) A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird..

Patibulated :: Patibulated (a.) Hanged on a gallows.

Gallows :: Gallows (n. sing.) A wretch who deserves the gallows.

Tree :: Tree (n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

Gallows :: Gallows (n. sing.) A pair of suspenders or braces.

Bough :: Bough (n.) A gallows.

Patibulary :: Patibulary (a.) Of or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution..

Scapegallows :: Scapegallows (n.) One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes.

Galwes :: Galwes (n.) Gallows.

Turn :: Turn (n.) A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given..

Drop :: Drop (n.) A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself..

Gallows :: Gallows (pl. ) of Gallow.

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