English to Chinese Meaning of gallows - 绞架

Gallows :

绞架

noun

绞架, 绞刑架, 绞刑架树, 块, 树

Gallows :: 绞架

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Definitions of gallows in English

Noun(1) an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging

Examples of gallows in English

(1) Ultimately he was tried, convicted and swung from a gallows , the last person hanged in Alberta.(2) Fourteen were killed, but subsequent trials led to transportation to Tasmania, not the gallows .(3) The Tyburn, on the Tadcaster Road side of Knavesmire, was where York's gallows were situated from 1379 until 1812.(4) The second is that an expectant and sceptical mob is starting to gather, with what looks ominously like a gallows and a hanging rope.(5) If a woman miscarried, went into labor early, or had trouble hiring a midwife, she could be sent to the gallows .(6) After that, the SS officers set up gallows and had hangings during each roll call.(7) One Sunday night, while all the villagers slept, workers began constructing a gallows that was forty feet high.(8) Thus, they could avoid fines, whippings, imprisonment, or worse, the gallows !(9) he was saved from the gallows by a last-minute reprieve(10) The gallows are situated behind a tiled building, which is now being demolished.(11) For this ├ö├ç├┐crime,├ö├ç├û which no one understands but Selma and the audience, American justice will sentence her to the gallows .(12) He staked everything on his ability to convince a judge to sentence the pair to life imprisonment and save them from the gallows .(13) A gallows was erected in front of the city gates.(14) A gallows is a structure used customarily to hang criminals.(15) No one can be safe for long from people who have no respect for human rights and think nothing of killing innocent people or sending them to prison or to the gallows in their lust for power.(16) When the hangings became private a portable gallows was used in the North West laneway from 1861 until 1883.

Related Phrases of gallows

(1) gallow ::

gallow

Related Phrases of gallows

(1) gallow ::

gallow

Synonyms

Noun

1. gibbet ::

绞刑架

2. scaffold ::

脚手架

Different Forms

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