What does gallowsbird mean?

gallowsbird

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Now leave my sight, begone, thou gallowsbird."
"I'm none of your parry-bellygrums, you rascally gallowsbird ; you cowardly, sneaking, plate-lickin' bliggard"
"An old black cloak nailed to the wall, and flapping to and fro in the draught like some dead gallowsbird, hung in front of the unglazed window."
"A gallowsbird's luck, that's what I had."

gallowsbirds (plural)

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