gallows tree
or gallow tree
a gallows.
Origin of gallows tree
1Words Nearby gallows tree
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How to use gallows tree in a sentence
One pictured a gallows tree; and, turning from that image, one pictured a firing squad at sunrise.
Fibble, D. D. | Irvin Shrewsbury CobbBy order of the court his body was disinterred and decapitated under the gallows-tree.
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals | Edmund P. EvansAnd still the gallows stood on the Field of Sleep, and also a big elm tree which sometimes served as the "gallows tree."
Greenwich Village | Anna Alice ChapinThe gallows-tree on the virgin soil of Australia flourished and bore fruit in abundance.
The Book of the Bush | George DunderdaleBy the Sheriff's castle, out upon the roadway, they have built an angled gallows-tree to bear the four of them at once.
Robin Hood | Paul Creswick
British Dictionary definitions for gallows tree
another name for gallows (def. 1)
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