| 单词 | gallows tree |
| 释义 | gallows tree (once / 108435 pages) n WORD FAMILY gallows tree: gallows trees USAGE EXAMPLES“Hold-Your-Nose Billy, a wild man is he, Hang him from a gallows tree. Here he comes, there he goes: Don’t forget to hold your nose.’ Sid Fleischman, The Whipping Boy(1986) The judge sentenced the sow to be hanged by her hind feet from a “gallows tree.” Slate(Feb 21, 2013) Yestreen I wush Queen Mary's feet, And bore her till her bed; This day she's given me my reward, The gallows tree to tread. Various, English and Scottish Ballads (volum...(2011) n alternative terms for gallows Syn|Hyper gallous, gallows-tree, gibbet gallows an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging |
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