Talk:gallows

Possible missing sense for a kind of frame

• 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  An Incredible Hulk punch-bag hangs from a metal gallows in the corner.

Equinox ◑ 20:01, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

I think our definition is too narrow- why does a gallows have to be made of wood? DTLHS (talk) 20:02, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

2. [uncountable] execution by hanging

[countable] a wooden frame made up of two upright pieces of wood with a crossbeam from which a person condemned to death is hanged.
[uncountable] execution by hanging: sentenced to the gallows.
https://www.wordreference.com/definition/gallows

--Backinstadiums (talk) 23:52, 17 August 2020 (UTC)