gallows

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n. 绞架, 绞刑 [法] 绞刑架, 绞台, 绞刑

发音

UK /ˈɡæləʊz/
US /ˈɡæloʊz/
/ˈɡæləs/

词形变化

gallowses 复数 gallowses

别名

gallus

教材释义与例句

名词

绞刑；绞刑架；承梁

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging.

    绞刑架

    绞架

    Near-synonym: gibbet

  2. 2.

    A wretch who deserves to be hanged.

    非正式 废旧
  3. 3.

    The rest for the tympan when raised.

    废旧 媒体 印刷
  4. 4.

    Suspenders; braces.

    非正式 废旧
  5. 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. 6.

    The main frame of a beam engine.

  7. 7.

    plural of gallow glyph; a specialized, ornate character that appears frequently in the Voynich Manuscript.

v.
  1. 1.

    third-person singular simple present indicative of gallow

adv.
  1. 1.

    Utterly; very.

    古体 非正式

词汇关系

名词

下位词 2

gallows tree gibbet

部分词 2

hemp halter

相关短语

gallows humor n. 充满怨恨的幽默 gallows humour 面临大难时的幽默 gallows bird 应受绞刑的人 [法] 应受绞刑的人 gallows birds gallows tree [网络] 绞刑架树 gallows frame gallows frames gallows trees gallows god gallows gods Tyburn gallows Middlesex gallows

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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