gibbet

Generations of school children across Halifax are taught the history of its gibbet but a few years ago it fell over due to rot.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2014

"It fell down, I was nearby and I felt it was important," said Mr Haddock, whose offices sit opposite the gibbet site.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2014

The rig looked like a gibbet, nailed to the white railing fence of the newly opened Branchdale Racing Park near Holly Hill.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Berault mounts the gibbet, the frame cuts off six steps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well beyond the gibbet, two men in mail hauberks stood leaning on their spears in front of the long low building by the water, the one with the slate roof.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Although the practice is fading, mole-catchers employ such gibbets to prove that the promised work is completed, and farmers use them to niggle their neighbours into clearing their own fields.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2017

In Victorian times, the heyday of butterfly collecting, gamekeepers would attract Purple Emperors down to their gibbets by hanging out rotting carcasses of crows and rabbits.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2015

The blasts have stripped many shop signs off their brackets, and the gibbets hang forsaken.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

If the truth were universally told of men's dispositions and actions, gibbets and wheels might be dismissed from the face of the earth.

From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Henry Noel Brailsford

The ironwork of the gibbets are in the Reading Museum.

From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

Huge as his figure must once have been, it now seemed, like his gibbeted plates, all battered and chipped and over-written with the marks of time.

From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer

They gibbeted their own infamy in vainly seeking to dishonor the illustrious dead.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

Two hundred years thy name has been pilloried in face of the world, and thy memory gibbeted before mankind.

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

She thinketh him gibbeted, and—” Here the door was flung open suddenly, and in rushed another soldier.

From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed

They gibbeted the absurd opposition which his Episcopal brethren made to emancipation, "without benefit of clergy."

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton

It was not until 1752 that gibbeting was recognized by statute.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

With bubbling yells it came, trampling the undergrowth, drumming on its huge breast, gibbeting with demoniac rage and pain--came swiftly, like the terrific things that people nightmares.

From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

The inhabitants of Brigg petitioned against the gibbeting, as it was so near the town, and consequently that part of the sentence was remitted.

From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

Now he may not be quite so savage perhaps as Colonel Kirke, nor find so much sport in gibbeting; but he is equally pitiless, and his price no doubt would be higher.'

From Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Two pleas only can justify disinterring and gibbeting an author's private life—either his having done the same by others, or his having made the public the confidant of his individual experience.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various