gibbet
Example Sentences
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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
But, without the dire consequences predicted by Ellenborough, gibbet and gallows were prescribed for fewer & fewer crimes.
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing gibbet
The Crucible
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"A Modest Proposal," Vocabulary from the satire
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"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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