Read full poem →The sheep beside me graze;
And yon the gallows used to clank
Fast by the four cross ways.
Dictionary Entry
Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. gallowshumor gallowshill gallows
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Poetry examples for “gallows”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →"Then I might have built perhaps
Gallows-trees for other chaps,
Never dangled on my own,
Read full poem →And make me dance as they desire
With jail and gallows and hell-fire.
And how am I to face the odds
Read full poem →That in the springtime shoot:
But grim to see is the gallows-tree,
With its adder-bitten root,
Read full poem →In the midst is a goodly gallows built;
'Twixt fork and fork, a stake is stuck;
Read full poem →M’Pherson’s time will not be long
On yonder gallows-tree.
Read full poem →The body, e’en let him escape!
He’d venture the gallows for siller,
An ’twere na the cost o’ the rape.
Read full poem →An’ sodgers baith;
But Gude preserve us frae the gallows,
That shamefu’ death!
Read full poem →took him up before him, carried him into Scotland, and would never
part with him, till he had his brother safe from the gallows. There is
no historical ground for supposing, either that Salkelde, or any one