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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallows/#m1)

2) The gallows is the punishment of being hanged. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallows/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallows/#x1)
- The judge sent the thief to the gallows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallows/#x2)
- They built a gallows on the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallows/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.123/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gallows» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallows/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.