A surname.

Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging. / (colloquial, obsolete) A wretch who deserves to be hanged. / (printing, obsolete) The rest for the tympan when raised.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gallow

(obsolete) To frighten or terrify.

simple past tense and past participle of gallow

present participle of gallow

plural of Gallow

(American spelling, idiomatic) Comedy that still manages to be funny in the face of, and in response to, a tragic or hopeless situation.

(British spelling) Alternative form of gallows humor

(archaic) A person who deserves, or is likely, to be hanged.