The gallows: so named from Gregory Brandon, a famous finisher of the law; to whom Sir William Segar, garter king of arms (being imposed on by Brooke, a herald), granted a coat of arms.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
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