The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word GALLOWS
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More clues leading to the result GALLOWS
- Golf provides for a place to swing
- Gibbet shines, fitted with aluminium
- Golf permits in place for dispatch
- Suffers with effect of freefall here?
- Place for swinging girls with scanty clothing? The reverse
- Government permits on which one could get hung up?
- Governor’s first to get permits for execution site
- Birds circling gloomy structure at Tyburn
- Chicks holding down place of execution
- Head of government permits facility for capital punishment
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What does GALLOWS mean?
GALLOWS noun- Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging.
- A wretch who deserves to be hanged.
- The rest for the tympan when raised.
- Suspenders; braces.
- Any contrivance with posts and crossbeam for suspending objects.
- The main frame of a beam engine.
- To frighten or terrify.