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Dule tree
Dule or dool trees in Britain were used as gallows for public hangings.〔Rodger, Donald, Stokes, John & Ogilve, James (2006). ''Heritage Trees of Scotland.'' The Tree Council. ISBN 0-904853-03-9〕 They were also used as gibbets for the display of the corpse for a considerable period after such hangings. These "trees of lamentation or grief" were usually growing in prominent positions or at busy thoroughfares, particularly at crossroads, so that justice could be seen to have been done and as a salutary warning to others. Place names such as Gallows-Hill, Gallows-See, or Gallows-Fey record the site of such places of male executions.〔Train, Joseph (1844). ''The Dule Tree of Cassillis.'' ''The Ayrshire Wreath MDCCCXLIV.'' Kilmarnock : R. Crawford & Son. pp. 40-46〕
==Origins of the name==
In Scots, dule or duill, also dole, dowle; dwle, dul, dull, duyl, duile, doile, doill, dewle, deull, and duel. In Middle English, dule, duyl, dulle, deul, dewle and variants of doole, dole, and dool. All these words mean sorrow, grief, or mental distress.
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