gallows 的定义
plural gal·lows·es, gal·lows.
- a wooden frame, consisting of a crossbeam on two uprights, on which condemned persons are executed by hanging.
- a similar structure from which something is suspended.
- execution by hanging: a crime deserving of the gallows.
- Also called gallows bitts .Nautical. a support on the deck of a vessel, generally one of two or more, consisting of a crosspiece on two uprights, for spars, boats, etc.
gallows 近义词
place for hanging
更多gallows例句
- Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.
- Gallows humor has always served him and other activists well; it had to in such dark times.
- Whichever of the groups was in power would be marching the other to the gallows.
- But when the people we put in power strung him up on the gallows his last words proved almost true.
- The last tally of children on death row, in 2011, estimated at least 143 child offenders were awaiting the gallows in Iran.
- It is far from evident why Soulis escaped with imprisonment while Brechin and others were sent to the gallows.
- He missed no opportunity of thwarting and damaging the Government which had saved him from the gallows.
- The evening previous he tried to poison himself, but lived to be stoned and hooted by the populace on his way to the gallows.
- Once they hung a father and son, whose sole offence was their loyalty to the Government, on the same gallows.
- Unknown or distant sufferings make less impression upon people than the erected gallows, or the example of a hanged man.