gallows

Converse of object

• erect: Syd had the gallows erected in the cellar of the post office.
• mount: The following day Parsons, Spies, Fisher and Engel mounted the gallows.
• escape: But after five years in jail, he escaped the gallows when his sentence was commuted.
• have: Syd had the gallows erected in the cellar of the post office.
• face: Imagine facing the gallows, or the firing squad.
• build: They're building a gallows in the town square.

Preposition: for

execution: Brought to the gallows for execution, he is pardoned by the queen in honor of her coronation.

Adjective modifier

• makeshift: There are plans to dress captured Taliban fighters in Santa costumes and string them from makeshift gallows along the city's main shopping street.
• new: This is the door through which the condemned were led to the new gallows, re-named The New Drop.
• same: I cannot think of another case where two men were hanged on the same gallows an hour and a half apart.
• own: A murderer haunted victims through its cavernous rooms and gaslit passages for his own private gallows.
• public: Your average village hag was usually dispatched by hanging at the public gallows or, more precisely, by being slowly strangled.
• last: The collection includes Oscar Wilde's Reading Jail cell door and, from Wandsworth Prison, the last gallows to be used in England.

Modifies a noun

• humor: We had a certain gallows humor in the embassy.
• humor: The Simon Wiesenthal Center dismissed the contest as " gallows humor.
• tree: May God be friend to me, He who once suffered on the gallows tree On earth here for men's sins.
• literature: The ballad continues with an echo of previous gallows literature: Oh!
• signal: This ex-Midland gallows signal was the last intact Midland signal in the Bradford district.
• sign: Across St John's Street hangs one of only a small number of gallows signs that remain.

Noun used with modifier

town: At the top of the lane, near the boro boundary, we see the town gallows where convicted thieves end their lives.