gallows
noun
a wooden frame, consisting of a crossbeam on two uprights, on which condemned persons are executed by hanging.
gallowses
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pluralof gallows.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"I wear gallowses no more," he explained, lifting his waistcoat to show that his braces now encircled him as a belt, but even then she did not understand.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
She knows how to deal with such gallowses; and they will keep her to cook their dinner.
From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
The comical little fellow wore an unbleached cotton shirt, and tattered pantaloons, with home-made suspenders or "gallowses."
From Queer Stories for Boys and Girls by Edward Eggleston
I mean, merely, that gallowses are fast disappearing, and that the people--le peuple you will understand--begin to accept money.
From Home as Found by James Fenimore Cooper
The cross-pieces on the small bitts at the main and fore hatchways in flush-decked vessels, for stowing away the booms and spars over the boats; also termed gallowses, gallows-tops, gallows-bitts, and gallows-stanchions.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
