apparently A gallows-bird, rogue.

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

A person who deserves or is likely to be hanged.

A person who deserves or is likely to be hanged; a rogue, a scoundrel. Also in weakened sense: a mischievous or rascally person. Cf. widdieneck, n.…

= ‘Thief's neck’, one fit for the gallows: a term of opprobrium.

= 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’.

Scottish. A hanged person, considered as filling a hangman's noose; a person fit for hanging. Obsolete.

= gallows-bird, n.

= 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.

= crack-halter, n.

A person who deserves hanging. Obsolete.

= halter-sack, n.

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

= hang-gallows adj. n.

(Usually in form hempie.) One who deserves to be hanged; one for whom hemp grows. Usually jocular: A mischievous giddy boy or girl.

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.

(a) adj. destined or fit for the gallows; (b) n. a gallows-bird.