English Dictionary

gallows

/ˈɡæləʊz/

noun

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.

The criminal was sentenced to death by hanging on the gallows.

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.