Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The frame of a gallows.
- noun The frame by which the beam of a beam-engine is supported.
- noun In mining, the structure erected over a shaft to support the pulleys and steady the cage.
- noun Called in the Pennsylvania anthracite region the head-frame.
- noun Nautical, same as
gallows-bitts .
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Examples
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"Exactly at six o'clock, I shall see a figure come out on the roof of the mission and stand in front of the old gallows-frame on which hang eight chimes that were carried in on mules from the City of Mexico when
The Pride of Palomar 1918
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