cadalso — meaning in English

English meaning

• gallows noun A wooden frame used for hanging condemned prisoners.
• hoarding noun A large outdoor advertising board; a billboard.
• scaffold noun A temporary framework of poles or tubes that workers stand on to reach high parts of a building.

Senses

cadalso is used for these senses in English:

• gallows A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging. [from 1300s]
• gibbet An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display.
• hoarding (architecture, historical) A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.
• scaffold An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.

hoarding — full definition

1. noun A large outdoor advertising board; a billboard.
2. noun A temporary fence or barrier put up around a construction site.
3. noun A psychological disorder marked by an ongoing need to collect items and severe difficulty discarding them.

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