Words and phrases that have a meaning related to gallows: (147 results)
Contains:
hangman's halter, hangman's rope, hemp, hempen necktie
Often used in the same context:
hangmen, gibbet, hangings, guillotine, convicts, executions, yardarm, gaol, tyburn, executioner, jail, prison, murderers, golgotha, trapdoor, crucifixion, penitentiary, lynching, electrocution, harakiri, stockades, imprisonment, prisoner, sentence, clemency, ducking stool, gangplank, treason, oubliette, lynch mob, pyre, highwayman, borstal, funeral pyre, martyr, hoosegow, lunatic asylum, death, gurney, manacles, decapitation, effigies, incarceration, pow camp, rope, stoning, tyrant, calaboose, scourging, housebreaker, saddam, dictator, penal servitude, caiaphas, slaughterhouse, gulag, punishment, slammer, bartolomeo vanzetti, retrial, penal colony, solitary confinement, staircase, pillory, brig, damnation, confessions, tragedian, courtroom, jailor, inmates, regicide, dungeon, banister, bannister, corpse, apostasy, bedchamber, sing sing, sharif, winston churchill, tumbrel, battlement, belfry, tolbooth, beheading, noose, penal, macheath, scabbards, plinth, spiral staircase, rath, magwitch, balcony, broch, immolation, danse macabre, bandar, panopticon, court martial, charpoy, cross, forge, podium, stockade, coffin, gravestone, jetty, nursery, sledge, bedsteads, brothel, corrals, easel, latrine, lavatory, schoolhouse, stove, deprecating, scaffold, droll, goofy, baited, grim, haunted, mocking, pinched, sly, wobbly, bare, cold, dark, deadened, drenched, jolliest, jovial, jubilant, languid
Appears in the definition of:
hanging
More general:
instrument of execution
Synonyms:
Also try:gallous, gallowstree
— Nouns for gallows: humor, tree, humour, frame, bird, feet, platform, rope, steps, foot, cubits, more...
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