( n. )
A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself.
( n. )
A door or platform opening downward; a trap door; that part of the gallows on which a culprit stands when he is to be hanged; hence, the gallows itself.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012