Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device used for hanging a person until dead; a gallows.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gallows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun same as
gallows .
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- noun Alternative term for
gallows
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun alternative terms for gallows
- noun alternative terms for gallows
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madmouth commented on the word gallows tree
Mother, did you bring me gold
Or silver to pay my fee
For to save my body from the cold clay ground
My neck from the gallows tree
-Judy Collins, THE PRICKILIE BUSH
June 1, 2009