hanging tree
Lynching mob's destination
A hanging tree is a tree used for execution by hanging, typically associated with frontier justice, lynching, or extrajudicial killings.
The term evokes American history, particularly vigilante justice in the Old West and the racial terror of lynching in the South.
It appears in folk songs, literature, and place names as a grim historical marker: The old oak was known as the hanging tree.
Execution hanging apparatus
- nooseLoop that constricts
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
- hangmanOne who kills condemned
- gibbetExecution display structure
rope · condemned · drop · trapdoor · executioner · capital punishment · death sentence · lynching
Extrajudicial killing by mob
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- slaveryOwnership of people
- old westPrevious western orientation
- antebellumBefore a war's start
civil war · abolition · public square · spectacle · infamy · historical marker · monument · relic
Fearful anticipation of harm
- eerieDisturbingly strange
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- macabreDisturbing, death-obsessed
- ghostlyResembling a specter
haunted · creepy · spooky · menacing · grim · morbid · chilling · shadowy
Survival contest for starving districts
- folk songTraditional community music
- lamentMournful expression of grief
- melodyPleasing sequence of notes
- lyricsWritten words for music
Suzanne Collins · mournful · refrain · verse · chorus · Jennifer Lawrence · rebellion · protest song
gallows
Execution hanging apparatus
gibbet · rope · condemned · drop · trapdoor · executioner · capital punishment · death sentence · lynching · strangulation
lynching
Extrajudicial killing by mob
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- slaveryOwnership of people
- old westPrevious western orientation
antebellum · civil war · abolition · public square · spectacle · infamy · historical marker · monument · relic · colonial
foreboding
Fearful anticipation of harm
ghostly · haunted · creepy · spooky · menacing · grim · morbid · chilling · shadowy · spectral
Hunger Games
Survival contest for starving districts
- folk songTraditional community music
- lamentMournful expression of grief
- melodyPleasing sequence of notes
Suzanne Collins · lyrics · mournful · refrain · verse · chorus · Jennifer Lawrence · rebellion · protest song · Strange Fruit
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folk tale
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- frontier towngeneral store, saloon, sheriff's office, livery stable, hitching post
- sacred treessacred oak, axis mundi, sacred grove, kapok, cedar of Lebanon
- tree themessacred groves, dryads
hanging treechopping block
Surface for cutting meat
guillotine · electric chair · firing squad · gas chamber · stake
hanging treetree of life
Diagram of evolutionary connections
liberty tree · sanctuary · sacred grove · family tree · Christmas tree
hanging treesanctuary
Protected sacred space
courthouse · court of appeals · asylum · safe haven · pardon
hang, tree, hangs, hung, hanger, hangers, hanging, hangings, overhang