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Gallows
Gallows [it is used by some in the singular, but more generally in the plural], a beam laid over
Gallow
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Gallows
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
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Galwes
Gallows
gallowstree
same as gallows
Hangdog
A base degraded person a sneak a gallows bird
Patibulary
Of or pertaining to the gallows or to execution
Patibulated
Hanged on a gallows
Scapegallows
One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes
Coke, Sir Edward
question of the Law Officers interfering with the judges, and also that he strongly protested against 'the cursed gallows tree' so frequently in use in his day. He died in 1634. Author of the Institutes and The
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