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.
n. an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging. 
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(61) Some posters imagined him on trial before the international criminal court or strung up on one of the gallows used for public hangings to terrorise the Libyan population.
(62) "Mercy on us, goodwife," exclaimed a man in the crowd, "is there no virtue in woman, save what springs from a wholesome fear of the gallows?
(63) Talk of revolution and mock gallows aside, the Republican street party was hardly a Cromwellian affair.
(64) The so - called heretic was sent to the gallows.
(65) Only our brand of gallows humor saves us from utter despair.
(66) After Japans defeat in 1945, both Tojo and Kishi were found guilty as Class-A war criminals(sentencedict.com/gallows.html), but Kishi evaded the gallows for reasons unknown—probably his usefulness to a war-ravaged nation.
(67) The Devil’s Dictionary: This adapted version of Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary contains words like brute, gallows, damn, wrath, and X.
(68) You'd better watch your step, young man, or you'll end up on the gallows.
(69) So they Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's fury subsided.
(70) That very day a gallows was built outside the town.
(71) Here's Johnny Gloke, the great gaintkiller, come with a gallows to hang us all!