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.
Значення
значень: 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.
(розмовне, застаріле)A wretch who deserves to be hanged.
(застаріле)The rest for the tympan when raised.
(розмовне, застаріле)Suspenders; braces.
Приклади
речень: 12The criminal was sent to the gallows.
ruПреступника отправили на виселицу.
deDer Verbrecher wurde zum Galgen geschickt.
You'll end up on the gallows.
ruТы закончишь на виселице.
It sounds a lot like gallows humour.
deDas klingt sehr nach Galgenhumor.
Then he was led to the gallows.
The gallows were already standing on the square.
ruВиселицы уже стояли на площади.
Переклади
мов: 9За значеннями 1
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Походження
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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