gallows

«gallows» in Mova's school dictionary: a wooden frame with a beam, used in the past to hang… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (gallows or gallowses) (old use)

meaning for a pupil

1) A gallows is a wooden frame with a beam, used in the past to hang criminals. tree →

2) The gallows is the punishment of being hanged. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old tales, a place of punishment and a threat to a villain

examples

• The villain was led to the gallows. tree →
• The judge sent the thief to the gallows. tree →
• They built a gallows on the hill. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gallows» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.