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gallows tree

or gallow tree

noun

  1. a gallows.


gallows tree

noun

  1. another name for gallows


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Word History and Origins

Origin of gallows tree1

before 900; Middle English galwe tree, Old English galgtrēow, equivalent to galg ( a ) gallows + trēow tree

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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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