Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A device used for hanging a person until dead; a gallows.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A gallows.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative term for gallows
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. same as gallows.
WordNet 3.0
- n. alternative terms for gallows
- n. alternative terms for gallows
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Arrrrr.
drink up, me hearties, yo ho!
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madmouth Mother, did you bring me gold
Or silver to pay my fee
For to save my body from the cold clay ground
My neck from the gallows tree
-Judy Collins, THE PRICKILIE BUSH Jun 1, 2009