Word "GALLOWS" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging

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A wooden structure used for hanging criminals (7)
Deadly place wherein a learner shines out (7)
Governor initially permits means of execution
Not a good place hang about, though some have done so, as gravity permits (7)
Head of government authorises place of execution (7) Puzzler Cryptic 02 Feb 2024
German acknowledges grim sort of humour (7)
A place for hanging painting only the last character permits The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Jul 2023
Type of humour golf provides The Telegraph Cryptic 26 May 2023
Support for capital punishment? The Telegraph Toughie 20 Oct 2022
Frame for hangings The Times Concise 02 Apr 2022
Support for capital punishment? The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Oct 2021
Penultimate judge approves of scaffolds
Suffers with effect of freefall here?
Golf permits in place for dispatch
Golf provides for a place to swing
After midnight lets them hang out here
Gibbet The Telegraph Quick 10 Oct 2018
Type of humour okay in case of girls The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Jun 2018
Frame for execution The Telegraph Quick 21 May 2018
Gibbet shines, fitted with aluminium
Head of Government permits hangman's structure
Government permits on which one could get hung up?
Place for swinging girls with scanty clothing? The reverse
Hanging structure Universal 16 May 2017
Birds circling gloomy structure at Tyburn
Bestial sounds by criminal circling scaffold The Telegraph Toughie 13 Apr 2017
Hanging structure
Governor's first to get permits for execution site
and 25: Wooden frame for hanging criminals The Telegraph General Knowledge 15 May 2016
Government tolerates this might be for those with a suspended sentence Irish Times Crosaire 13 Feb 2016
Chicks holding down place of execution
Frame for hanging The Times Concise 01 Jul 2015
Head of government permits facility for capital punishment
Gibbet
The Tyburn Tree.
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