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Definition of Gallowses
1. gallows [n] - See also: gallows
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallowses
Literary usage of Gallowses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Methodism in the Carolinas by Abel McKee Chreitzberg (1897)
"... Courthouse—Georgetown—Joseph Travis—Mills and Kennedy in Charleston—Capers on
Great I'ee Dee —The Gully Incident of the gallowses—Travis in Columbia. ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"NED 1824 Many of us wore gallowses, sat behind the singers, ... 1806 It must be
very handy to have shoulder-straps instead of gallowses,—besides, ..."
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