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gallows-bird
gallows-bird (ˈgæləzbɜːd) [f. gallows n. + bird n.] One who deserves to be hanged. Also occas., one who has been hanged.1785 Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Gallows bird, one that deserves hanging. 1796 Ibid. (ed. 3), Gallows bird, a thief or pick-pocket; also one that associates with them. 1828 Scott F.M...
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The Gallows Bird
The Gallows Bird (Swedish: Olycksfågeln) is a 2006 novel by Camilla Läckberg, translated by Steven T. Murray in 2011.
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gallows-clapper
† gallow(s)-clapper Obs. [f. gallows n. + clapper. ? From the swinging of the body to and fro like the clapper of a bell or of a scarecrow.] = gallows-bird.1570 Levins Manip. 81/4 A Gallowclapper, furcifer. 1583 Golding Calvin on Deut. li. 305 It is not only the gallowes-clappers that say so I meane...
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Upper Ray Meadows
Gallows Bridge Farm, which only has access to bird hides, is accessed from The Broadway.
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wickhals
† wickhals Obs. [app. f. wick a. + halse n.1, neck.] app. A gallows-bird, rogue.1338 R. Brunne Chron. (1725) 267 To while þise cardinals trauaild for þe pes, Here of a wikhals how he bigan a res. c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 10086 Let him neuere dye of no wyk-hals!
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Louis Filler
1964
Horace Mann on the Crisis in Education, 1965; Spanish translation 1972
Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom, 1965
The Ballad of the Gallows-Bird
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gallows
▪ I. gallows, n. (ˈgæləʊz) Forms: α. sing. 1 galᵹa, ᵹealᵹa, (3 Comb. galhe-), 3–4 gal(e)we, (5 Comb. galle-), 5–6 galow(e, 6–7 gallow, 7–9 gall(e)y. β. pl. in sing. sense, later construed as sing. 3–5 galwes, (4 galewis, -ewys, -uus), 4–5 galus, (5 galhouse, -hows, galohous), 5–6 gallous, galowes, (...
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Konstanty Kalinowski
Bird: Peasant's Truth, the Tocsin of the 1863 Uprising in: Zapisy Belarusian Institute of Arts and Sciences. Vol. 14. New York, 1976. Bird: The 1863 Uprising in Byelorussia: "Peasants' Truth" and "Letters from Beneath the Gallows".
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hangie
hangie Sc. (ˈhæŋɪ) [f. hang v.] 1. A term of reproach: ? hangman or gallows-bird; a worthless fellow.1787 Burns Addr. to Deil ii, Hear me, auld Hangie, for a wee, An' let poor damned bodies be. 2. A drift-net.1889 Scott. Leader 11 Mar. 5 The use of the hangie or drift-net on the waters of the Tay.
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Christ Blessing (Bellini, 1500)
The withered tree and solitary bird on the left of the panel represent the Old Covenant, out of which the New Covenant will grow. Gallows (1568).
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Hoy (Lake Constance)
It is also part of the bird reserve, Bayerisches Bodensee. History
According to locals, Hoy is occasionally (but incorrectly) called Galgeninsel ("Gallows Island"), but the real Galgeninsel, a former imperial
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halter-sack
† halter-sack Obs. [f. halter n.1 + sack.] A ‘gallows-bird’: a term of obloquy.1598 Florio, Capestro, a rope, a halter, a headstall. Also a wag, a halter-sack, or gallowes-clapper. 1611 Ibid., Capestrello..a haltersacke, a waghalter. 1611 Beaum. & Fl. King & no K. ii. ii, Away, you halter-sack, you....
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The Golden Bird
When the son refuses, it warns him against buying gallows' flesh and sitting on the edge of rivers. He finds that his older brothers, who have been carousing and living sinfully in the meantime, are to be hanged (on the gallows) and buys their liberty
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crack-halter
† ˈcrack-halter Obs. [f. crack v. + halter.] One likely to crack or strain a halter, i.e. to die by the gallows; a gallows-bird; = crack-hemp, crack-rope. Also playfully: cf. ‘rogue’. It has been suggested that the original sense was perhaps ‘one who has cracked or broken the halter, and so escaped ...
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Nick Holmes
Guest appearances
3 AM - "Deus Ex Machina" - Liv Kristine (1998, Swanlake)
For a Voice Like Thunder - "Rituals" - Rotting Christ (2016, Season of Mist)
Gallows Bird - "Hour of the Nightingale" - Trees of Eternity - (2016, Svart Records)
Wake Up the Coma - "Wake Up the Coma" - Front Line Assembly (2019, Metropolis
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