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

Out on the flats of Dagenham, for instance, where the last of the river pirates were hanged on a gibbet a few centuries ago, Ford Motor Co.,

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

Three gibbets dumb and tall, Against the east, with scrawny arms, outlined; Far off a lonely tower, left behind, With silver cross and ball.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various

The Temple you rais'd was so wonderful large Not one of them thought you could answer the charge, It seem'd a mere castle constructed of vapour, Surrounded with gibbets and founded on Paper.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Philip Freneau

"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

It was the fault of one man: Pownall has gibbeted the rascal; Epsom fell through the "knavery of Mr. John Livingstone, an apothecary."

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson

Sir Robert Constable was gibbeted above the Beverley-gate, Hull, in 1537, for high treason.

From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

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

A certain Mansell of Otery is gibbeted as a terror to evil doers in a way which would form a sufficient ground for an action for libel in these degenerate days.—Ship,

From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Alexander Barclay

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

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

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

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 William Andrews