gallows
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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
The year 1777 is sometimes called the Year of the Hangman because the last three digits resemble a gallows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
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
Newsrooms being breeding grounds for gallows humor, most also understand that futility is a terrific comedy catalyst.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025
The wardrobe shook again, though not as much as Neville, who walked forward as though he were heading for the gallows.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
"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
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
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
She knows how to deal with such gallowses; and they will keep her to cook their dinner.
From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
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
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