Synonym: execution, hanging, noose, rope. Similar words: as follows, gallon, gallop, allow, hallow, mellow, billow, follow. Meaning: ['gæləʊz] n. an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging.
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(31) Some of the cushions and shoes dangled from cords attached to the ceiling, suggesting the somber finality of a gallows.
(32) But within it there is evidence of Kane s gallows humour.
(33) Instead they hanged him and stuck his head upon the gallows tree.
(34) Another of the outcropping, another of a gallows fixed to the outcropping.
(35) Dinah rides with Hetty in the cart proceeding to the gallows along streets lined with people.
(36) But Armstrong was found Guilty and became the only solicitor to go to the gallows for murder.
(37) Then her head was struck off and fixed on gallows and her body thrown into the pit.
(38) Viktor had seen their bodies swinging from a gallows in a little hamlet after the Red Army had retaken it.
(39) Gallows loomed in the shadows of her dreams and dead babies and famine, and a blonde woman with sly green eyes.
(40) The gallows groans for you.
(41) The judge condemned the criminal to the gallows.
(42) The rubber pedrail is installed on the travel gallows.
(43) The judge sentenced the murderer to the gallows.
(44) But somehow it worked. Gallows humour becomes Mr Brown.
(45) The murderer was executed on the gallows.
(46) It is not much worse than the gallows.
(47) He'll come to the gallows.
(48) He gallows groans for him.
(49) And the word seemed good to Haman,[sentencedict.com] and he had the gallows made.
(50) This adapted version of Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary contains words like brute, gallows, damn, wrath, and X.
(51) If that ruffian does not mend his ways, he will come to the gallows some day.
(52) Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows.
(53) That was how Truman Capote summed up the murders with somewhat greater drama,(http://sentencedict.com) referring to the four Clutter victims and their two attackers who died later on the gallows.
(54) The alchemist would be dressed in a tinsel suit and hanged from a gallows covered in gold-colored foil.
(55) Now I was to expiate all my offences at the gallows.
(56) A device usually consisting of two upright posts supporting a crossbeam from which a noose is suspended and used for execution by hanging; a gallows tree.
(57) But I'll own up fairly , I've the shakes upon me for the gallows.
(58) He outwitted the gallows by biting a percussion cap and blowing off his head.
(59) Reporting from the nearby town of Harrisburg, Ira D. Rosen captured the bizarre combination of altruism and gallows humor the disaster prompted in the community.
(60) On the top of the gallows is fixed the knife.