Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging. / (colloquial, obsolete) A wretch who deserves to be hanged. / (printing, obsolete) The rest for the tympan when raised.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gallow

plural of Gallow

(obsolete) To frighten or terrify.

simple past tense and past participle of gallow

present participle of gallow

A surname.

(archaic) A person who deserves, or is likely, to be hanged.

plural of gallows bird

A tree used as a gallows, a tree from which people are hung (killed by hanging).