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Old English ġealga.

gallows (plural gallows or gallowses)

Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging.
- 1728, Thomas Otway, “The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Solider's Fortune”, in The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway^[1], volume 2, page 37:
  No, Sir, 'tis fear of Hanging. Who would not ſteal, or do Murder, every time his Fingers itch'd at it, were it not for fear of the Gallows?
(colloquial, obsolete) A wretch who deserves to be hanged.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
(printing, obsolete) The rest for the tympan when raised.
(colloquial, obsolete) suspenders; braces

wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging

Arabic: مشنقة (ar) (míshnaqa) f
Bulgarian: бесило (bg) (besilo) n, бесилка (bg) (besilka) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 絞刑架 (cmn), 绞刑架 (cmn) (jiǎoxíngjià), 絞台 (cmn), 绞台 (cmn) (jiǎotái)
Czech: šibenice (cs) f
Danish: galge (da) c
Dutch: galg (nl)
Esperanto: pendumilo (eo), pendigilo (eo)
Estonian: võllas (et)
Faroese: gálgi (fo) m
Finnish: hirsipuu (fi)
French: gibet (fr) m, potence (fr) f
German: Galgen (de) m
Greek: αγχόνη (el) (anchóni) f, κρεμάλα (el) (kremála) f
Hebrew: גרדום (he) (gardom)
Hungarian: akasztófa (hu)
Icelandic: gálgi (is) m
Italian: forca (it), patibolo (it) m
Japanese: 絞首台 (ja) (こうしゅだい, kōshudai)

Jèrriais: gibet m
Latin: arbor (la) f, gabalus (la) m, patibulum (la) n
Latvian: kārtavas (lv) f pl
Luxembourgish: Gaalgen (lb) m
Norwegian: galge (no) m
Persian: چوبه دار (fa) (ĉōba ye dâr)
Polish: szubienica (pl) f
Portuguese: forca (pt), cadafalso (pt) m
Russian: виселица (ru) (víselica) f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шибеница (sh) f, ве̏шала (sh) f, вје̏шала (sh) f

Roman: šibenica (sh) f, vešala (sh) f, vjȅšala (sh) f
Slovak: šibenica (sk) f
Spanish: horca (es) f, patíbulo (es) m
Swedish: galge (sv) c
Tatar: дар (tt) (dar)
Turkish: darağacı (tr)
Vilamovian: guolgia

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