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

A surname.

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.