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.
Meaning
6 sensesA 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.
(colloquial, obsolete)A wretch who deserves to be hanged.
(obsolete)The rest for the tympan when raised.
(colloquial, obsolete)Suspenders; braces.
Examples
12 sentencesThe criminal was sent to the gallows.
ruПреступника отправили на виселицу. — odexed
deDer Verbrecher wurde zum Galgen geschickt. — Melang
You'll end up on the gallows.
ruТы закончишь на виселице. — marafon
It sounds a lot like gallows humour.
deDas klingt sehr nach Galgenhumor. — Plusquamperfekt
Then he was led to the gallows.
The gallows were already standing on the square.
ruВиселицы уже стояли на площади. — odexed
Translations
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Origin
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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