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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 William Andrews

Laws may interdict and gibbets terrify, but neither can convince the understanding, nor purify the sources of action.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger

Half-penny without date, but no doubt struck in 1794, when a rumor reached London that Paine had been guillotined: Paine gibbeted; above, devil smoking a pipe; reverse, monkey dancing; legend, "We dance, Paine swings."

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine

Voltaire forgave his when he had gibbeted them in his writings.

From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by G. W. (George William) Foote

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 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

Every one remembers how even the late Laureate gibbeted his Dons--how 'One Discussed his tutor, rough to common men.

From Aspects of Modern Oxford by A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley

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

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

I think your success in gibbeting me is not certain.

From Romola by George Eliot

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

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