gallows tree

American  

Or gallow tree

noun

1. a gallows.

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gallows tree British  

noun

1. another name for gallows

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Etymology

Origin of gallows tree

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

Example Sentences

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gallows tree

And the men sing, On Mountjoy one Monday morning High upon the gallows tree, Kevin Barry gave his young life For the cause of liberty.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Among those who thus weighted the gallows tree were some of the Tory brigands from Watauga; but not all the victims were of this character.

From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Constance Lindsay Skinner

On one occasion," he tells me, "Punch suspended me, pictorially of course, from a gallows tree.

From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann

Like the McPherson who danced so wantonly and rantingly beneath the gallows tree, she remained brave-hearted to the end.

From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein

"Then He showed himself to the thousands who had seen him die upon the gallows tree!"

From Messer Marco Polo by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne