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noun

• a special way of doing something

• the way a garment hangs

• a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms

verb

• be suspended or hanging

• cause to be hanging or suspended

• kill by hanging

• let drop or droop

• fall or flow in a certain way

• be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive

• give heed (to)

• be suspended or poised

• hold on tightly or tenaciously

• be exhibited

• prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury

• decorate or furnish with something suspended

• be placed in position as by a hinge

• place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction

• suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste

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

26%11Gallows worker
noun

• an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant

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