English Dictionary

gallows

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɡæləʊz/

名詞

口語 廃用

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.

日本語の意味

絞首台：処刑の際に人を絞首するための木製の枠組み / （口語・古語）絞首に値する悪人、取り立てるべき落魄人 / （印刷用語・古語）印刷工程において、タイムパンが持ち上げられた際の残部を指す用語

The condemned man climbed the steps to the gallows with a resigned expression.

その死刑囚は諦めた表情で絞首台の階段を上った。

意味（1）

Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging.

No, Sir, 'tis fear of Hanging. Who would not ſteal, or do Murder, every time his Fingers itch'd at it, were it not for fear of the Gallows?

意味（2）

(colloquial, obsolete) A wretch who deserves to be hanged.

Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too. / You'll ne'er be friends with him: a' kill'd your sister.

意味（3）

(printing, obsolete) The rest for the tympan when raised.

意味（4）

(colloquial, obsolete) Suspenders; braces.

意味（5）

Any contrivance with posts and crossbeam for suspending objects.

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.

意味（6）

The main frame of a beam engine.

gallows （ plural ）

gallowses （ plural rare ）