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Gallow

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Gal´low
v. t.1.To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t.
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To gally, or gallow, is to frighten excessively --to confound with fright.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at the time, but I could not help staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
So the chief of police ordered a gallows to be erected, and sent criers to proclaim in every street in the city that a Christian was to be hanged that day for having killed a Mussulman.
The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context
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