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单词 cheat the gallows
释义

gallows /galˈōz or (old) galˈəs/

singular noun (pl gallˈowses)
  1. A wooden frame for hanging criminals
  2. A person who deserves the gallows (Shakespeare and literary)
  3. The look of someone destined to hang (Shakespeare and literary)
  4. Any contrivance with posts and a crossbeam for suspending things (obsolete)
  5. A rest for the tympan of a hand printing press (obsolete)
  6. The main frame of a beam-engine
  7. (also gallows frame) a headframe
  8. One of a pair of trouser braces (dialect)

—The plural form galˈowses is used by Shakespeare in the first sense above; various Scottish and dialect spellings of the plural are found, eg gallˈuses for trouser braces

adjective
  1. (often gallˈus) deserving the gallows
  2. Villainous (Scot and dialect)
  3. Mischievous, wild, unmanageable (Scot and dialect)
  4. Impudent, saucy, tiresome (Scot and dialect)
  5. Plucky, daring (Scot and dialect)
  6. Perky, spirited, sprightly (Scot and dialect)
  7. In some dialects, a mere intensive
adverb

(often gallˈus) (dialect) damnably, confoundedly

ORIGIN: Orig pl, from ME galwes, from OE galga; Ger Galgen

gallˈowsness or usu gallˈusness noun (dialect)

Recklessness, perversity

gallˈows-bird noun

A person who deserves hanging or has been hanged

gallˈows-foot noun

The space at the foot of the gallows

gallˈows-free adjective

Free from the danger of hanging

gallows humour noun

Grim, sardonic humour

gallˈows-lee noun

The place of hanging

gallˈows-maker noun

gallˈows-ripeˈ adjective

Ready for the gallows

gallowsˈ-tree noun

A gallows

cheat the gallows

To deserve but escape hanging

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