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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Could human courts take vengeance on the mind, 865 Axes might rust, and racks and gibbets fall: Guard, then, thy mind, and leave the rest to fate.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius, secretly dissected human corpses, finding them hanging on public gibbets or competing with dogs for those incompletely buried in cemeteries.

From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by S. A. Reilly

This man he gibbeted in the character of Viper in The Capuchin, under which name the altered Trip to Calais was performed in 1776.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

Did you not speak of me as the lover of your prayer, and you said that in ecstasy the nuns—and indeed it must be so—exchange a gibbeted saint for some ideal man?

From Mike Fletcher A Novel by George (George Augustus) Moore

Those who have gibbeted themselves on the walls have also thrown the newspapers that held their lunch into the water, and bottles with the paper—a most unhappy spectacle.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson

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 John Addington Symonds

The Times newspaper did good service in gibbeting this precious morceau, supplied by its indefatigable reporter, in its broad sheet.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various

I think your success in gibbeting me is not certain.

From Romola by George Eliot

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 Daniel Scott

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 Edmund Burke

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