gallows

The series is wildly atmospheric with plenty of gallows humor and more than a few truly loopy plotlines, but great fun with Davis managing, as ever, to sell even the most preposterous scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that Brown would “make the gallows as glorious as the cross.”

From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2026

Some of the chat leading up to this game involved the gallows humour so close to the heart of most members of the Tartan Army.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025

For local establishments, the newly offered specials are part gallows humor, part business gamble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

What I had originally thought were walls of gallows were actually elevated wooden benches.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

I mean, merely, that gallowses are fast disappearing, and that the people--le peuple you will understand--begin to accept money.

From Home as Found by James Fenimore Cooper

Tildy and Johnny were married, and Johnny's gallowses never creaked any more.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various

The cross-pieces on the small bitts at the main and fore hatchways in flush-decked vessels, for stowing away the booms and spars over the boats; also termed gallowses, gallows-tops, gallows-bitts, and gallows-stanchions.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

When knaves come to preferment, they rise as gallowses are raised in the Low Countries, one upon another's shoulders.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown

"I wear gallowses no more," he explained, lifting his waistcoat to show that his braces now encircled him as a belt, but even then she did not understand.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie