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- The definition of gallows are  a framework or support used for hanging people. An example of gallows are nooses hanging from trees meant to hang people convicted of crimes.
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Gallows These gallows in Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park are maintained by Arizona State Parks. A gallows (or scaffold) is a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging, or as a means of torture before execution, as was used when being hanged, drawn and quartered.allows can take several forms: 1  The simplest form (as often used in the game  Hangman ) resembles an inverted L (or a Greek/Cyrillic г), with a single upright and a horizontal beam to which the rope noose would be attached. 2  The horizontal crossbeam is supported at both ends.
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halter 1 a rope or strap with a noose or headstall for leading or restraining horses or cattle. gallows. death by hanging. ClothingAlso called hal′ter top′. a woman's top, secured behind the neck and across the back, leaving the arms, shoulders, upperback, and often the midriff bare.
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- Gallows Hill is part of Lancaster, next to the Ashton Memorial and Williamson Park, and was the favoured execution site of the Hanging Judges until 1800.en Pendle witches died on Gallows Hill on the 20th August 1612. Members of both the Demdike and Chattox families where hanged on the hill. Owd Demdike (Elizabeth Southerns), leader of the Demdike family, escaped the executioner by dying in her cell in Lancaster.
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- Execution by burning, by decapitation, or by hanging, drawing and quartering were used to provide a public spectacle of the consequences of disobedience.  1 Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath..
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Wicca drawing and quartering - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up) Until the 19th century the full punishment for men in England for the crime of treason was drawing and quartering. (Women were burned at the stake.) The punishment more accurately should be called drawing, hanging, and quartering.
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guillotine guillotine (plural guillotines) 1  A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade. 2  A device used for cutting stacks of paper to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged blade attached to a flat platform.
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hewverb  [ T] hew in British English. See all translations. hewverb [ T ] uk ​ /hjuː/ us ​ /hjuː/ hewed, hewed or hewn. › to cut a large piece out of rock, stone, or another hard material in a rough way: The monument was hewn out of the side of a mountain. Thesaurus: synonyms and related words. Sculpture.
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- Sows definition, to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant. See more.
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Gallows Hill  (novel) Gallows Hill (1997) is a supernatural thriller novel for young adults by Lois Duncan. It was her first and so far only young adult novel written after the death of her daughter.It was written eight years after her previous young adult novel, Don't Look Behind You.allows Hill has received several honors and awards. In 1997, Gallows Hill was designated a Junior Library Guild Selection. A year later, the novel was listed as an American Library Association (ALA) Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, and the New York Public Library listed it as a Book for the Teen Age.
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- anguish /ˈaeŋɡwɪʃ/ ˈæŋɡwɪʃ n extreme pain or; misery mental or physical; torture agony vb to afflict or be afflicted with Anguish: etymology 13th: century From Old french angoisse a, strangling From latin angustia, narrowness from angustus. narrow
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effigy n, pl-gies. 1. (Art Terms) a portrait of a person, esp as a monument or architectural decoration. 2. a crude representation of someone, used as a focus for contempt or ridicule and often hung up or burnt in public (often in the phrases burn or hang in effigy).
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maw 1. (Zoology) the mouth, throat, crop, or stomach of an animal, esp of a voracious animal. 2. informal the mouth or stomach of a greedy person.
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Hanging Hanging is that form of asphyxia which is caused by suspension of the body by a ligature which encircles the neck, the constricting force being the weight of the body. The whole weight of the body is not necessary, and only a comparatively slight force is enough to produce death.
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stocker stock. 1  a former instrument of punishment consisting of a framework with holes for securing the ankles and, sometimes, the wrists, used to expose an offender to public derision. Compare pillory (def 1). 2  a frame in which a horse or other animal is secured in a standing position for shoeing or for a veterinary operation.
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Slang Bung - A bung is also a bribe. Butchers - To have a butchers at something is to have a look. This is a cockney rhyming slang word that has become common. The reason butchers means a look even though it doesn't rhyme is because it is short for butchers hook and hook of course, does rhyme. C of E - The Church of England.
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execution the act or process of executing. 2. the state or fact of being executed. 3. the infliction of capital punishment or, formerly, of any legal punishment. 4. the process of performing a judgment or sentence of a court: The judge stayed execution of the sentence pending appeal. 5. a mode or style of performance; technical skill, as in music: The pianist's execution of the sonata was consummate.
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treason syn: treason, sedition mean disloyalty or treachery to one's country or its government. treason is any attempt to overthrow the government or impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance. According to the U.S. Constitution, it is the crime of levying war against the U.S. or giving aid and comfort to its enemies.
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gallows gallows. 1  a wooden frame, consisting of a crossbeam on two uprights, on which condemned persons are executed by hanging. 2  a similar structure from which something is suspended. 3  execution by hanging: a crime deserving of the gallows. 4  Also called gallows bitts.
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- It is a fine steaming night to turn the slaughter-houses, the unwholesome trades, the sewerage, bad water, and burial-grounds to account, and give the registrar of deaths some extra business. View in context
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- tawse. pl.n. Chiefly Scots. 1. A whip or leather thong used to drive a spinning top.2. A leather whip divided at the end into strips, formerly used to punish children: Solider Aristotle played the taws / Upon the bottom of a king of kings (William Butler Yeats).. (Education) a leather strap having one end cut into thongs, formerly used as an instrument of punishment by a schoolteacher. vb. 2. (Education) to punish (someone) with or as if with a tawse; whip. [C16: probably plural of obsolete taw strip of leather; see taw²].
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Jumping Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory. Jumping can be distinguished from running, galloping and other gaits where the entire body is temporarily airborne by the relatively long duration of the aerial phase and high angle of initial launch. Some animals, such as the kangaroo, employ jumping as their primary form of locomotion, while others, such as frogs, use it only a
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Treason Guy Fawkes tried to assassinate James I of England. He failed and was convicted of treason and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's nation or sovereign. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife or that of a master by his servant. Treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a lesser superior was petty treason. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor.
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mew 1 mews, (usually used with a singular verb) Chiefly British. (formerly) an area of stables built around a small street. a street having small apartments converted from such stables.
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- 1 An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows. 2  The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib. 3  To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet.  To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn.