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), one of two or more frames amidships on deck for
supporting spare spars; -- called also gallows, gallows
top, gallows frame, etc. -- Gallows
frame. (a) The frame supporting the
beam of an engine. (b) (Naut.)
Gallows bitts. -- Gallows, or
Gallow tree, the gallows.

At length him nailéd on a gallow
tree.

Spenser.

Gall"stone` (?), n. A concretion,
or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See
Calculus, n., 1.

Gal"ly (?), v. t. [See Gallow,
v. t.] To frighten; to worry. [Obs. or
Prov. Eng.] T. Brown.

Gall"y (?), a. Like gall; bitter
as gall. Cranmer.

Gal"ly (?), n. See Galley,
n., 4.

Gal`ly*gas"kins, n. pl. See
Galligaskins.

Ga*loche", Ga*loshe" (&?;), [OE.

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