This monster sat like a hangman upon a pair of gallows: in his right hand he was painted holding a crown of laurel, in his left hand a purse of money. Sidney, b. ii.

I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good; O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses. Shakesp. Cymbel.

I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,
This fellow could not drown. Shakespeare's Tempest.

A little before dinner he took the major aside, and whispered him in the ear, that execution must that day be done in the town, and therefore required him that a pair of gallows should be erected. Hayward.

A production that naturally groweth under gallowses, and places of execution. Brown's Vulgar Errours, b. ii.

A poor fellow, going to the gallows, may be allowed to feel the smart of wasps while he is upon Tyburn road. Swift.

Cupid hath been five thousand years a boy.
— Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too. Shakespeare.