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

Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaed he; He play’d a spring, and danced it round, Below the gallows tree.

From Life of Robert Burns by Carlyle, Thomas

Hence Odin was called the Lord of the Gallows or the God of the Hanged, and he is represented sitting under a gallows tree.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

One of a small bunch of chestnut trees west of the road where it tops the hill is pointed out as the gallows tree, although early accounts speak of a rough gallows having been erected.

From The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five by Hine, C. G. (Charles Gilbert)

This man was ragged beyond all that moving rag-heap; he was as gaunt as a gallows tree, and the thing he was uttering with arms held up to heaven was evidently a curse.

From The New Jerusalem by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)