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How to pronounce “gallows”

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Pronunciation guide for gallows

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of gallows with real speech in context.
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8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
Why Work Won’t Love You Back (and That’s OK) (w/ Sarah Jaffe)like kind of gallows humor about it and
Definition summary
A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging. [from 1300s]

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How to pronounce gallows

Why Work Won’t Love You Back (and That’s OK) (w/ Sarah Jaffe)

like kind of gallows humor about it and

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “gallows”

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging. [from 1300s]
  • (colloquial, obsolete) A wretch who deserves to be hanged.
  • (printing, obsolete) The rest for the tympan when raised.
  • (colloquial, obsolete) Suspenders; braces.
  • Any contrivance with posts and crossbeam for suspending objects.
  • The main frame of a beam engine.
  • [Adverb]
  • (colloquial, archaic) Utterly; very.
  • [Verb]
  • third-person singular simple present indicative of gallow

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