gibbet

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

The gibbet has long since given way to a graceful fountain, but Pizarro's spirit still inhabits the Plaza de Armas.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

What chains, what prison, what gibbets had sufficed thereunto?

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne

The bodies of Cromwell, Bradshaw, and Ireton were torn from their graves and hung on gibbets at Tyburn, while those of Pym and Blake were cast out of Westminster Abbey into St. Margaret's churchyard.

From History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 by John Richard Green

Farthing: Paine gibbeted; reverse, breeches burning, legend, "Pandora's breeches"; beneath, serpent decapitated by a dagger, the severed head that of Paine.

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

This is not unnatural when we remember how that unfortunate woman has been gibbeted for all time in the characters of Mlle.

From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

This was done with the bodies of three highwaymen about the middle of last century, gibbeted on the top of the Chevin, near Belper, in Derbyshire.

From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

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

His great grandson was Augustus Henry, third Duke of Grafton, who may still be seen gibbeted in the pages of Junius.

From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various

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

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 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

Next we come to the gibbeting of a Threlkeld man, one of the earliest recorded instances of that punishment being imposed in the County Palatine.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Daniel Scott