Gallows and Stick

Gallows

Gallows noun - An instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging.

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Stick and gallows are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stick" instead a noun "Gallows".

Stick noun - A long thin implement resembling a length of wood.

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Gallows and stick are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Gallows" instead a noun "Stick".

Nearby Words: sticker, sticky, sticking, stickily

One depicts a crying girl looking on as a man, presumably her father, hangs from a gallows in the background and two helmeted stick-figures, presumably soldiers of the 33rd, carry her sobbing mother away.

Source: Video Game / Spec Ops: The Line
The David Drake anthology All the Way to the Gallows is a collection of stories rich with martial gallows humor, primarily from "pointy end of the stick" people getting stuck in horrible situations by either political direction or circumstances.

Source: Gallows Humor

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