gibbet
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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
Thereby, dead and dangling from its gibbet, hangs a tale.
From Time Magazine Archive
Back in Paris, at the age of 31, he faced the gibbet of Montfaucon for a second time, was again liberated, sentenced to ten years' exile.
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
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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