5/19/2023 0 Comments Hanging scaffolding design![]() With the beginning of Christianization, Ulfilas used the term galga in his Gothic Testament to refer to the cross of Christ, until the use of the Latin term (crux = cross) prevailed. The term " gallows" was derived from a Proto-Germanic word galgô that refers to a "pole", "rod" or "tree branch". In modern usage it has come to mean almost exclusively a scaffold or gibbet used for execution by hanging. ![]() The term was also used for a projecting framework from which a ship's anchor might be raised so that it is no longer sitting on the bottom, i.e., "weighing anchor,” while avoiding striking the ship’s hull. Gallows were thus widely used to suspend public weighing scales for large and heavy objects such as sacks of grain or minerals, usually positioned in markets or toll gates. Execution of Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt on July 7, 1865, after trapdoor has been sprung, at Fort McNair in WashingtonĪ gallows (or scaffold) is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended (i.e., hung) or "weighed".
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