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单词 gallows-tree
释义

gallows-treen.

Forms: Before 19th cent. gallow-; see forms of gallows n.
Etymology: Old English galg-tréow, Northumbrian galga-tre (= Old Norse gálga-tré), < galga gallows + tréow tree.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgallows-tree.
1. = gallows n. 1.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows
gallowsOE
gallows-treea1000
warytre?a1200
gibbet?c1225
gallow-forka1250
forkc1275
juisec1320
forchesc1380
crossa1382
treec1425
patible1428
justice1484
potencec1500
haltera1533
turning-tree1548
potentc1550
three treesa1566
chates1567
mare1568
furel1587
bough1590
gibe1590
derrickc1600
hangrella1605
cross-tree1638
Gregorian tree1641
wooden horse1642
timber-marec1650
triple tree1651
furca1653
nubbing1673
a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678
nub1699
Tyburn tree1728
raven-stone1738
picture frame1785
crap1789
lamp-iron1790
Moll Blood1818
stifler1818
scragging-post1819
government signposta1828
leafless tree1830
shuggie-shue1836
doom-tree1837
stob1860–62
OE Beowulf 2940 Cwæð, he on mergenne meces ecgum getan wolde, sum[e] on galgtreowu[m fuglum] to gamene.
a1000 in J. Stevenson Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (1840) 23 Ðin rodes galga tre.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 43/300 Heng up-on þe galu-treo.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 4764 Ȝe schul..heye hong on galwe tre.
c1422 T. Hoccleve Jereslaus' Wife 436 Shee espyde A galwe tree to which men a theef ledde.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 111 In his suppleis, On gallow treis Now he dois glowir.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) i. xxvi. 19 Let them..hang him upon a cursed gallow tree [L. infelici arbori] by a rope.
a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) X. 231 He that mistakes..the gallow-tree for a triumphal arch.
1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. 446 Most like to carcase parched on gallow-tree.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 53 The fatal day was announced to the public, by the appearance of a huge black gallows-tree.
1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 97 The gallows-tree was never built for handsome lads like you.
2. = gallows n. 5a. Cf. gallow-balk n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > trivet
trivet1416
gallows1512
trippet1563
gallows-tree1590
footman1767
sime1781
1590 Inv. in Midland Counties Hist. Collector II. 31 Item j galowe tree ij Rekyrons.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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