An apparatus for inflicting the punishment of death by hanging, usually consisting of two uprights and a cross-piece, from which the criminal is…

= gallows, n. 1.

A gallows, gibbet. Often applied to the Cross.

Originally synonymous with gallows, n., but in later use signifying an upright post with projecting arm from which the bodies of criminals were hung…

= gallows-tree, n.

A gallows. Also plural. Cf. forche, n. 1.

transferred. The instrument of penalty; the gibbet, the cross.

In plural. Gallows.

A kind of gibbet used by the ancients (and in later times by some non-Christian nations); a stake, generally with a transverse bar, on which they…

A gallows. Also †dry tree, Tyburn tree.

A cross or crucifix; (also) the horizontal bar of a cross.

A place or instrument of execution; a gallows. Obsolete.

A cross or gibbet; a gallows. Obsolete.

Used typically for death by hanging; ‘the gallows’.

a gallows (cf. to turn off 4 at turn, v. phrasal verbs, to turn over 6 at phrasal verbs).

Scottish. A gibbet. Obsolete. rare.

the gallows.

plural. Gallows.

With the implication of a metaphorical ‘riding’. (See also Shanks' (or Shanks's) mare, pony at shank, n.… The gallows (frequently with reference to…

? A gallows.

transferred. A gallows: cf. similar use of tree. Legal Proverb. ‘The father to the bough, the son to the plough’: supposed to mean that, according…

A gibbet.

A hangman; hanging; the gallows. (Cf. Jack Ketch, n.)

A gallows; see also quot. 1802.

(a) A gallows. (b) A cross.

the gallows. (Cf. Gregory, n. 2.)

wooden horse n. A name for the scaffold or gallows; also for an instrument of torture: = horse, n. 24. Obsolete.

a kind of wooden horse on which offending soldiers and others were made to ride as a punishment.

A gallows (in reference to its three parts).

Roman History (and allusively). A gallows.

The action of hanging. Frequently attributive, esp. in nubbing cheat: the gallows.

Proverbial phrases and locutions. a horse that was foaled of an acorn: the scaffold, the gibbet. †to come for horse and harness: i.e. for one's own…

The gallows. rare.

the gallows.

a place of execution.

The gallows or (in early use) pillory.

The gallows.

a projecting iron rod from which a lamp was suspended; in the French Revolution sometimes used as a gallows.

the gallows.

Thieves' slang. The gallows.

in senses of the verb; also spec. the process of extending a new spring beyond the desired normal length, and then compressing it, in order to…

the gallows.

the gallows.

The pastime of swinging; a swing (esp. at a fair), hence jocularly the gallows; also a see-saw.

a tree on which the condemned were hanged.

A stake; a post; also a gibbet. †rogue stob, a whipping-post.