a structure on which people, for example criminals, are killed by hanging 绞刑架；绞台 to send a man to the gallows (= to send him to his death by hanging) 把一名男子送上绞刑架 The public were waiting to see the hated hangman swing from his own gallows. 公众正等着看到讨厌的子手从他自己的绞架上摇摆。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGallows is used before these nouns:- humour
Word OriginOld English galga, gealga, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch galg and German Galgen; reinforced in Middle English by Old Norse gálgi.