Crossword-Solution: GALLOWS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gallows | pl. | of Gallows |
| Gallows | n. sing. | A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything. |
| Gallows | n. sing. | A wretch who deserves the gallows. |
| Gallows | n. sing. | The rest for the tympan when raised. |
| Gallows | n. sing. | A pair of suspenders or braces. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “GALLOWS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hanging structure | 1 answer |
| The Tyburn Tree. | 1 answer |
| a wooden frame for hanging criminals | 1 answer |
| potence | 1 answer |
| wooden frame for hanging criminals | 1 answer |
| Tyburn tree | 2 answers |
| Scaffold | 6 answers |
| Noose | 17 answers |
| Gibbet | 28 answers |
| hanging | 45 answers |
| Block | 84 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with GALLOWS (5)
For, had I sight, I know not with what eyes I could have met my father in the shades, Or my poor mother, since against the twain I sinned, a sin no gallows could atone.
For years past she had looked from this estranged point of view at human institutions, and whatever priests or legislators had established; criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church.
His terror of the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide, and return to his subordinate station of a part instead of a person; but he loathed the necessity, he loathed the despondency into which Jekyll was now fallen, and he resented the dislike with which he was himself regarded.
Had they been caught they would have gone to jail, or even to the gallows, without a word of protest or indiscretion; at any rate it was well worth the risk.
Clergymen, judges, statesmen,—the wisest, calmest, holiest persons of their day stood in the inner circle round about the gallows, loudest to applaud the work of blood, latest to confess themselves miserably deceived.
Quotes with GALLOWS (3)
Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one a graduate of Chicago and another of Ann Arbor; one who had passed his examination for the Harvard Law School and was about to take a trip in Europe,--another who had passed at Ann Arbor, the youngest in his class, with three thousand dollars in the bank. Boys who never knew what it was to wa…
The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows are waiting for them!
It is a strange thing how quickly our bodies die. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul is gone - leaving an empty, insignificant vessel in its stead. I have read of those sent to the gallows and guillotines of Europe. I have read of the great war of ages past and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to such deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts. But in doing so, we forget that they were each as …
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1960–2017).