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

He trotted up to the gibbet, stopped, worked his mule under the goose, and grabbed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the low red glare of sunset, the beacon, and the gibbet, and the mound of the Battery, and the opposite shore of the river, were plain, though all of a watery lead colour.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

He has a ring made of iron from gibbets and is prepared to believe everything incredible.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

Is there another, me wondereth, where they grow straight?—where the black-souled die on the gibbets, and the white-souled wear the crowns?

From The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

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

Good service, such and such, had been done in Languedoc; so and so had been hanged, or gibbeted, so and so rewarded: what had our dear and royal brother to say?

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett

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

"It is to be hoped," says Mr. Dodd, the local historian, "that the statement about the man being gibbeted alive is a fiction."

From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

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

It was not until 1752, by an Act of 25 George II., that gibbeting was legally recognised.

From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

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

I think your success in gibbeting me is not certain.

From Romola by George Eliot

This Act made matters clear, and was the means of gibbeting rapidly increasing in this country.

From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

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