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gallows tree
noun
- a gallows.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gallows tree1
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Example Sentences
One pictured a gallows tree; and, turning from that image, one pictured a firing squad at sunrise.
By order of the court his body was disinterred and decapitated under the gallows-tree.
And still the gallows stood on the Field of Sleep, and also a big elm tree which sometimes served as the "gallows tree."
The gallows-tree on the virgin soil of Australia flourished and bore fruit in abundance.
By the Sheriff's castle, out upon the roadway, they have built an angled gallows-tree to bear the four of them at once.
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