Gallows is valid Scrabble Word

Is gallows a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is gallows valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for GALLOWS in dictionary:

NOUN:

a structure used to hang a condemn person
a structure, typically of two uprights and a crosspiece, for the hanging of criminals.
execution by hanging
wooden structure used for hanging criminals
A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything.
A wretch who deserves the gallows.
The rest for the tympan when raised.
A pair of suspenders or braces.
an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a structure used for hanging a condemned person

Words related to GALLOWS

gallows11 gallowses13 galowses12

Words that contain GALLOWS

gallowses13 gallowsness15 scapegallows20 gallowsnesses17 scapegallowses22

How to use GALLOWS in a sentence

These were brought to him, and that was all that was done with them, as I was released and went to work after hanging on the gallows about an hour.
I ask, in the face of the gallows of Bewley, what we are to think of that prodigious paradox according to which the Gospel is the patron of slavery.
Two of the wretched creatures were marched off to the gallows, and placed with ropes round their necks on a raised platform under the beam.
Day by day they had built the structure of gallows right there in the courtroom.
He knew he deserved the gallows, and Joyce was a man who would execute him in an instant, did his commander order it.
Convinced of their innocence and enraged by the efforts to railroad them to the gallows, they did their best to provide adequate defense.
The elegant Writer makes a very sudden Transition from the Play-house to the Church, and from thence, to the Gallows.
They even went so far as to erect a gallows in the yard, and, having entered the court-room, demanded from the sheriff the person of the prisoner.
So high a gallows as that, the Judge had never, even in his most hilarious moments, dreamed of.
The jurisdiction to which the slave was responsible was a private one, like that of the great feudal lord of the Middle Ages, who had his own prison and his own gallows.

And at the foot of this gallows were divers folk laughing and talking.
He has taken more than one step towards the gallows already.
This thought daunted him more than death on the gallows.
Judge Pohlman had never before sent a man to the gallows.
And the sky was grey, and the bleak night deepened, and the shadow of the gallows crept on.
The terrified horse galloped furiously forward, throwing her from side to side, then violently to the ground at the foot of the gallows.
His life ended on the gallows at Execution Dock on January 25th, 1738.
The gallows was erected beside the water, and fronting the neutral ground.
The gallows was of considerable length, and contrived with a drop so as to prevent the unpleasant circumstances which frequently occur.
On the 27th of October they were led to the gallows on Boston Common, under escort of a hundred soldiers.
In the following spring she returned to Boston and on the first day of June was again taken to the gallows.
If this latter were true, it would leave it an open question whether Ralph did well to save him from the gallows.
In its wavering beams the gallows rose to immense proportions and seemed also to take on the semblance of life.
It is a topic of consolation which our ordinary of Newgate would be too humane to use to a criminal at the foot of the gallows.
They belong to a mental condition which would conduct an individual to the prison or the gallows.

Similar words containing GALLOW without suffix s

gallow10 galloway15 gallowed13 galloways16 gallowing14 gallowses13 gallowglass16 gallowsness15 scapegallows20 gallowglasses18 gallowsnesses17 scapegallowses22

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