gibbet

"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

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

But, without the dire consequences predicted by Ellenborough, gibbet and gallows were prescribed for fewer & fewer crimes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thereby, dead and dangling from its gibbet, hangs a tale.

From Time Magazine Archive

He took the road for Cambridge, crossing desolate Charlestown Common with its salt marshes, clay pits, gallows, and gibbet.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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

The ironwork of the gibbets are in the Reading Museum.

From Bygone Punishments by Andrews, William

Comorre's nature seemed changed, his prisons were empty, his gibbets untenanted; but Triphyna felt no confidence, and every day went to pray at the tombs of his four wives.

From Brittany & Its Byways by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

Nay, good mistress," interrupted the Captain, "I will agree to be gibbeted by thine own fair hand, if I do not satisfy thee that in this adventure we are deserving of all applause.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.

His great grandson was Augustus Henry, third Duke of Grafton, who may still be seen gibbeted in the pages of Junius.

From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various

It is hardly possible that Giraldus should have gibbeted such a man under the sobriquet of Golias.

From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by Symonds, John Addington

There I shall be, gibbeted in that woman's smile!

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

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 Stringer, Arthur

Next we come to the gibbeting of a Threlkeld man, one of the earliest recorded instances of that punishment being imposed in the County Palatine.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel

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 Andrews, William

It walks abroad, it continues its ravages, whilst you are gibbeting the carcase, or demolishing the tomb.

From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Burke, Edmund

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

The treasurer's accounts for Derbyshire, for 1815-16, show, says Dr. Cox, that the punishment of gibbeting involved a serious inroad on the county finances.

From Bygone Punishments by Andrews, William