MEANING
A structure from which a person is hanged as a form of execution.
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- wooden gallows
- foot of the gallows
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The old gallows stood beyond the town wall, visible from the road.
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Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Singular a gallows; plural gallows or gallowses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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