gallows

名词 n. 动词 v. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡæləʊz/    美 /ˈɡæloʊz/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging.
    — Near-synonym: gibbet
  2. A wretch who deserves to be hanged. colloquial,obsolete
    — Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too. / You'll ne'er be friends with him: a' kill'd your sister.
  3. The rest for the tympan when raised. obsolete
  4. Suspenders; braces. colloquial,obsolete
    — The last pair of "gallowses" made by Mr. Gratacap was an order from Mr. Brokaw, the clothier.
  5. Any contrivance with posts and crossbeam for suspending objects.
    — Lit by the moonlight through the window, he can see a FIGURE in the hospital bed alone in the room, and under a transparent oxygen tent. […] Tubes hang from a steel gallows beside the bed, and run to his nose and mouth.
  6. The main frame of a beam engine.
  7. plural of gallow glyph; a specialized, ornate character that appears frequently in the Voynich Manuscript. form-of,plural
动词 v.
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of gallow form-of,indicative,present,singular,third-person
副词 adv.
  1. Utterly; very. archaic,colloquial,not-comparable
    — They've got a gallows bad reputation, but you know what a place the beach is for talking.

词形变化

gallows plural gallowses plural,rare

词汇关系

近义词
crook gallows nubbing cheat Tyburn tree
上位词
ravenstone
衍生词
gallous gallow gallow character gallow glyph gallows bird gallows-bird gallows-bitts gallows frame gallows god gallows humor gallows humour gallowsmaker gallowsness gallowsward Middlesex gallows scapegallows Tyburn gallows
相关词
gallows tree hanging tree die by hanging gallows bird hangworthy kill by hanging
部分词
drop halter hangman's noose noose rope scaffold transom

词源

From Middle English galwes, galewes, plural of galwe, galowe, from Old English galga, gealga, from Proto-West Germanic *galgō, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”). The plural construction probably refers to the vertical and horizontal beams.
Compare West Frisian galge, Dutch galg, German Galgen, Danish galge, Icelandic gálgi.
For the pronunciation /ˈɡæləs/, compare bellows, bodice.
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