Usually means: Structure for execution by hanging.
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  1. gallows tree: Merriam-Webster
  2. gallows tree: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gallows tree: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gallows tree: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gallows-tree, gallows tree: Vocabulary.com
  6. gallows-tree, gallows tree: Wordnik
  7. gallows tree: Wiktionary
  8. gallows tree: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. gallows-tree, gallows tree: Dictionary.com
  10. Gallows tree, The Gallows Tree: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. gallows-tree, gallows tree: Rhymezone
  12. gallows-tree, gallows tree: FreeDictionary.org
  13. gallows-tree, gallows tree: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. gallows-tree, gallows tree: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gallows-tree, gallows tree: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gallows tree)

▸ noun:  A tree used as a gallows, a tree from which people are hanged (killed by hanging).

Similar:
gallow tree, hanging tree, gatten tree, passion tree, weeping tree, bolling, gallnut, beam tree, rood-tree, suicide tree, more...

Opposite:
gallows pole, gibbet, hanging post, execution post, scaffold

Types:
hanging tree, execution tree, lynching tree, death tree, tree of justice, tree of woe, more...

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Similar:
gallow tree, hanging tree, gatten tree, passion tree, weeping tree, bolling, gallnut, beam tree, rood-tree, suicide tree, more...

Opposite:
gallows pole, gibbet, hanging post, execution post, scaffold

Types:
hanging tree, execution tree, lynching tree, death tree, tree of justice, tree of woe, more...



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