apparently A gallows-bird, rogue.

= crack-halter, n.; also = rogue, vituperatively, and playfully.

= stretch-halter n.

a man who deserves to be put to death.

One who deserves to be hanged; a rogue or rascal, a shifty person.

One who is likely to swing in a halter; a ‘gallows-bird’.

= hang-gallows adj. n.

A person who is ripe for the gallows. Obsolete.

One likely to crack or strain a halter, i.e. to die by the gallows; a gallows-bird; = crack-hemp, n., crack-rope, n. Also playfully: cf. ‘rogue’.

String or cord made of hemp. Hence transferred, one who deserves the halter.

= waghalter, n.

one who deserves to be hanged, a gallows-bird.

One deserving the gallows; a gallows-bird.

A ‘gallows-bird’: a term of obloquy.

= waghalter, n.

A person who deserves hanging. Obsolete.

one doomed to climb the ladder at the gallows, i.e. to be hanged.

= hang-gallows adj. n.

one who bears the mark of the gallows in his face (cf. 2b).

One who deserves to be hanged. Also occasionally, one who has been hanged.