gallows
A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hangingA wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging.
» The criminal was sent to the gallows.
Der Verbrecher wurde zum Galgen geschickt.
Преступника отправили на виселицу.
Значение
значений: 6A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging.
Near-synonym: gibbet
Galgen
ви́селицаvíselica, ши́беницаšíbenica
ши́беницяšýbenycja
an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging
Any contrivance with posts and crossbeam for suspending objects.
The main frame of a beam engine.
(разговорное, устаревшее)A wretch who deserves to be hanged.
(устаревшее)The rest for the tympan when raised.
(разговорное, устаревшее)Suspenders; braces.
Примеры
предложений: 12The criminal was sent to the gallows.
Преступника отправили на виселицу.
deDer Verbrecher wurde zum Galgen geschickt.
You'll end up on the gallows.
Ты закончишь на виселице.
The gallows were already standing on the square.
Виселицы уже стояли на площади.
It sounds a lot like gallows humour.
deDas klingt sehr nach Galgenhumor.
Then he was led to the gallows.
Переводы
языков: 9По значениям 1
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Происхождение
From Middle English galwes, galewes, plural of galwe, galowe, from Old English galga, gealFrom Middle English galwes, galewes, plural of galwe, galowe, from Old English galga, gealga, from Proto-West Germanic *galgō, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”). The plural construction probably refers to the vertical and horizontal beams.
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