Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. supporting equipment

Anotations

Scope note:

Devices comprising a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam, particularly such a device employed in executing criminals by hanging. The term may also refer to any similarly constructed support, such as an iron support for a pot over a kitchen fire.