gallows

Schrader, who turns 80 in July, spoke about the coming upheaval with a mixture of fascination, resignation and dry gallows humor.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that Brown would “make the gallows as glorious as the cross.”

From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2026

With typical gallows humour, Glaswegians dubbed it the "Death Star" after the Empire space station in the Star Wars film.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

The year 1777 is sometimes called the Year of the Hangman because the last three digits resemble a gallows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

So many died that the tumbrils used to cart thieves to the gallows were repurposed to carry orphans to the monasteries and convents.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

I mean, merely, that gallowses are fast disappearing, and that the people--le peuple you will understand--begin to accept money.

From Home as Found by Cooper, James Fenimore

She knows how to deal with such gallowses; and they will keep her to cook their dinner.

From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

When knaves come to preferment, they rise as gallowses are raised in the Low Countries, one upon another's shoulders.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Tildy and Johnny were married, and Johnny's gallowses never creaked any more.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various

"I wear gallowses no more," he explained, lifting his waistcoat to show that his braces now encircled him as a belt, but even then she did not understand.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)