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Gallows Shaped Letter Crossword Clue

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noun

• the 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet

• Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1460-1524)

• a unit of magnetic field strength equal to one-hundred-thousandth of an oersted

28%5 From the Greek meaning “shaped like the letter upsilon”, the neck’s U-shaped lingual bone
adjective

• of or relating to the hyoid bone

noun

• a U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue muscles

26%9Gallows
noun

• putting a condemned person to death

• the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it

• (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer

• (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable

• a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out

• the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order

• unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

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