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	gallows - definition by dict.die.net
		gallows n : instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging [syn: gallowstree, gibbet, gallous]
		Etymologically and historically considered, gallows is a noun in the plural number, but it is used as a singular, and hence is preceded by a; as, a gallows.] 1.
		Whether on the gallows high Or where blood flows the reddest, The noblest place for man to die -- Is where he died the deadest.
	dict.die.net /gallows (253 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gallows
		A gallows is a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging (see that article), and hence a metaphor for that capital punishment.
		A gallows is a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging.
		The infamous Tyburn gallows was triangular in plan, with three uprights and three crossbeams, allowing criminals to be executed along all three sides.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gallows (626 words)

	Boom Gallows Frame and Boom Gallows Base - SailorSams.com
		- Highly polished bronze boom gallows frame fits 1-1/2" schedule 40 pipe.
		Boom Gallows Frame and Boom Gallows Base - SailorSams.com
		- Highly polished bronze boom gallows base has base angle of 3 degrees.
	www.sailorsams.com /mall/boom_gallows.asp (34 words)

	HIV & AIDS - Gallo's Humor
		A certain kind of ironic or dark humor is what is called “Gallows Humor,” named after the medieval frame device consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam from which criminals were hanged.
		Gallows humor makes fun of a very serious or terrifying situation.
		But, wait, since every great performance deserves an encore, the next year-- 1985--Gallo and his small band of criminally insane comedians got an even better idea to increase their amusement and happiness, “Gallo’s Humor” in full swing, as it were.
	www.virusmyth.net /aids/data/sjgallo.htm (1776 words)

	The New Ship "Susan Howland", of Boston.
		Her boats are stowed on the house forward, and on a gallows frame across the quarter deck and the house aft.
		Her frame is of seasoned white oak, and her planking, ceiling, keelsons, deck frames and lower deck, are of hard pine; she is square fastened throughout, seasoned with salt, and ventilated along the sides of the houses.
		Some idea may be formed of her stability from the facts that all her boats were in their places, all her masts and yards aloft, and yet, with a clean hold, she stood as upright as a church, and only drew 9 feet water.
	www.bruzelius.info /nautica/News/BDA/BDA(1856-04-19).html (1344 words)

	Definition of gallows - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		1 a : a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged -- called also gallows tree b : the punishment of hanging
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		Etymology: Middle English galwes, plural of galwe, from Old English gealga; akin to Old Norse gelgja pole, stake, Armenian jalk twig
	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=gallows (134 words)

	Amazon.com: Goin' South (1978) : Video
		Directed by and starring Nicholson, not long after he dazzled us with his wonderful take on Randle McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", it's an off-beat Western comedy that will have you smiling from first frame to last.
		The story concerns a two-bit outlaw(Nicholson) saved from the gallows by a virginal ordinance bride(Mary Steenburgen).
		"Goin' South",directed by star Jack Nicholson, is an engaging lightweight comic western.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6300213722?v=glance (1219 words)

	Only in Butte: Travel To, From, In, and About Butte, America
		Hell Roarin' Gulch recreates the mining life during that time with a restored town with shops and exhibits that interpret the period all built around the gallows frame of the Orphan Girl Mine, a defunct silver mine.Various exhibits demonstrate early mining technology and culture through the use of artifacts and an extensive photograph collection.
		West of Butte near Philipsburg, gold seekers in the 19th century were disappointed in their search for the yellow metal but settled instead for one of the richest sources in the world for precious gems known as sapphires.
		Butte's fortunes were built between the 1870s and the 1920s on the vast reserves of copper that continue to be tapped today.
	www.butteamerica.com /gold.htm (1219 words)

	Southern Pacific Standard "A" Frame Gallows Turntable
		This basic "A" frame design was first used by the Central Pacific during its construction years in the 1860s, and similar turntables were built by the Virginia and Truckee, the Carson and Colorado, and the Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Co. in the 1870s and 1880s.
		The specific design version built by NSRM with the lower center kingpost in the center of the "A" frame is based on standard Southern Pacific drawings dating from 1906, and first introduced by SP in the late 1880s as an improvement of earlier designs.
		New turntables are being built in Folsom, Placerville, and at the Orange Empire Railway Museum, all using NSRM patterns.
	www.nsrm-friends.org /nsrm48.html (1219 words)

	DenverPost.com - TRAVEL
		Other attractions include a general store and Masonic Lodge brought from Dudley, a carpenter shop and morgue, the Stage Coach Inn from Mosquito Pass, a narrow-gauge engine and railroad station from Buffalo Springs, the Father Dyer Methodist Church of Fairplay, and a gallows frame from the Phillips Mine, to name a few pieces of history.
		They were built by Leonard Summer using native sandstone quarried near Red Hill Pass east of town.
		South Park City is an authentic restoration of a Colorado mining boomtown.
	www.denverpost.com /travel/ci_0002597396 (1219 words)

	Witchfinder General (1968)
		Instances of mild edge enhancement are visible during some high-contrast transitions, for instance in the haunting shot of the man hammering bolts into the gallows on the hill.
		It is certainly an improvement on the full frame Merlin Video VHS rental tape, which ruins the careful compositions by letting the viewer's eye wander away from the key elements in each shot.
		But given the age of the film and the source print used, how conspicuous the edge enhancement is will depend on your display device.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=3895 (2799 words)

	Treatment Part 3
		The Daly statue moves through a Butte landscape, past a gallows’ frame while the Our Lady reaches a leveling off of the steep cliff of the mountain.
		Across the valley from her is the copper statue of a handsome Marcus Daly.
		Frank continues, "Little came to Butte at a time when the Anaconda Company, the conglomerate that had grown from the original mining company started by Marcus Daly, was becoming known as simply 'The Company.' Anaconda was buying up independent mines, and growing strong enough to have strong control over all the laborers in Butte.
	www.sloppyfilms.com /buttemagic/treat3.htm (3689 words)

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		For Conan, after refusing to help the evil wizard Ethram-Fal, has been cursed with a spell that is slowly, inexorably squeezing the life from his mighty frame.
		Facing the gallows for defending his honor-by killing the captain of the guard-the mighty Conan jumps feet first into a rescue attempt of one of his fellow prisoners.
		In the Ibar Mountains the necromancer Eremius is raising a demon-spawned army, using in of the fabled Jewels of Kurag.
	amrathelion.com /merchandise/books_print (3689 words)

	DND 101 - Canadian Navy - [Ship's Sensors - Variable Depth Sonar]
		Until needed, the VDS pressure vessel sits in a ‘gallows’ frame mounted in a special cut-out in the destroyer’s transom.
		During the Iroquois class TRUMP refits of the mid-’90s, the opportunity was taken to standardize the destroyers’ sonar suite – both sonar systems (hull-mounted and VDS) were replaced with the new Canadian-designed AN/SQS-510.
		CANTASS passive system but should usefully serve until the end of the destroyers’ days.
	www.sfu.ca /casr/101-navvds.htm (443 words)

	Songs From The Second Floor
		Without moving the camera or cutting, Andersson holds your attention spell-bound; something's always happening at the edge of the frame, adding twists of surreal gallows humour to a film of almost scriptural intensity.
		It's riveting to watch - composed as a series of 46 scenes, shot in wide screen deep focus.
		The Context talks to Roy Andersson, maker of Songs From The Second Floor
	www.thecontext.com /docs/2440.html (110 words)

	ghost town, boomtown, museum, South Park City, Fairplay, Colorado, historic site, mining history, tourist attraction
		Besides the distinctive sillouette of the Gallows Frame, the exhibits include an authentic Arrastra (an earlier ore crusher), an Assay Office (where an ore's grade and value could be determined), and a mining display which includes a steam engine, stamp mill and crushing mill.
		The picture above overlooks the "mine" section of South Park City.
		The miners would also use the buckets for entering and leaving the mine!
	www.southparkcity.org /gallowsframe.htm (110 words)

	Philippi
		Union steamer Howquah discovered new and fast sidewheeler Ella 10 November 1863 steaming along the coast north of Fort Fisher, N.C. She immediately gave chase and fired a shot at the blockade runner which glanced off Ella’s gallows frame and caused her to surrender.
		The Boston Prize Court subsequently condemned the prize and sold her to the Navy 23 February 1864.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/p6/philippi.htm (121 words)

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