Betekenis van:
gallows
gallows
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- strafwerktuig om misdadigers op te hangen
- an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging
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Voorbeeldzinnen
- The criminal was sent to the gallows.
- The gallows were already standing on the square.
- Jonathan was sentenced to death and brought to the gallows.
- The 'Pythons' are famous for their gallows humour.
- In truth, a man who renders everyone their due because he fears the gallows, acts under the sway and compulsion of others, and cannot be called just. But a man who does the same from a knowledge of the true reason for laws and their necessity, acts from a firm purpose and of his own accord, and is therefore properly called just.
- You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.