gallows

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see also: Gallows

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈɡæləʊz/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɡæloʊz/
• (America, dialectal) IPA: /ˈɡæləs/

Noun

gallows (plural gallows)

1. Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging. [from 1300s]
2. (colloquial, obsolete) A wretch who deserves to be hanged.
3. (printing, obsolete) The rest for the tympan when raised.
4. (colloquial, obsolete) Suspenders; braces.
5. Any contrivance with posts and crossbeam for suspending objects.
   • 1971, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather (screenplay, third draft)

     Lit by the moonlight through the window, he can see a FIGURE in the hospital bed alone in the room, and under a transparent oxygen tent. […] Tubes hang from a steel gallows beside the bed, and run to his nose and mouth.

6. The main frame of a beam engine.

Synonyms

• (wooden framework used for hanging) gallows tree, gallow tree, hanging tree, gibbet

Translations

• French: gibet, potence
• German: Galgen
• Italian: forca, patibolo
• Portuguese: forca, cadafalso
• Russian: ви́селица
• Spanish: horca, patíbulo

Verb

1. third-person singular form of gallow

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Gallows

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Proper noun

1. plural form of Gallow

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