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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A device used for hanging a person until dead; a gallows.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A gallows.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. same as gallows.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. alternative terms for gallows
  2. n. alternative terms for gallows

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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

‘gallows tree’ has been looked up 299 times, added to 3 lists, commented on 1 time, and is not a valid Scrabble word.