1) British hardcore punk group 2) Execution equipment 3) Execution scaffold 4) Exclusively Saxon word 5) Exclusively Anglo word 6) Gallous 7) Gallows tree 8) Gallows-tree 9) Gibbet 10) Hanging structure 11) Instrument of execution 12) Scaffold 13) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 14) Word of purely Anglo origin
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1) Gallous 2) Gibbet 3) Tree
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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. The gallows took its form from the Roman Furca when Constantine the Great abolished crucifixion. ==Forms of hanging== Gallows can take several forms: Occasionally, impro...
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Bitts with crosspieces for supporting spare spars stowed fore and aft on a weather deck. May also support ship's boat and be called Boat Gallows.
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• (pl. ) of Gallows • (n. sing.) The rest for the tympan when raised. • (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. ...
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A frame used to support the boom when the sail is stowed.
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A place of execution by a rope around the neck of a criminal and suspended from a beam. These were often situated at the limits of towns or by roads. The dead body could be left for some considerable length of time in a metal cage called a gibbet as a deterrent - where the criminal was executed or somewhere else, e.g. the body of William Winter wa...
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Origin: OE. Galwes, pl, AS. Galga, gealga, gallows, cross; akin to D. Galg gallows, OS. & OHG. Galgo, G. Galgen, Icel. Galgi, 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. ... 1. A frame from ...
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Gal'lows noun sing. ;
plural Gallowses or
Gallows . [ Middle English
galwes , plural, Anglo-Saxon
galga ,
gealga , gallows, cross; akin to Dutch
galg gallows, Old Saxon & Old High German
galgo , German
galgen , Icelandic
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Gallows (once called a pair of gallows) are a structure consisting of a horizontal crosspiece and one or two supporting uprights, used for hanging criminals.
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[
n] - instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging
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noun an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging
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