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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He took the road for Cambridge, crossing desolate Charlestown Common with its salt marshes, clay pits, gallows, and gibbet.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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

We have put her away in an old chest with hoops and tie-wigs and gibbets and pirates and Newgate ordinaries and rotten boroughs and watchet ribbands.

From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

Comorre’s nature seemed altered; his prisons were empty, his gibbets untenanted.

From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Lewis Spence

The pink-cheeked young patrolman, swinging back on his beat, tattooed with his ash night-stick on the gas-pipe frame and peered indifferently down at the battered and gibbeted crockery.

From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer

Half-penny without date, but no doubt struck in 1794, when a rumor reached London that Paine had been guillotined: Paine gibbeted; above, devil smoking a pipe; reverse, monkey dancing; legend, "We dance, Paine swings."

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

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

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

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

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

It was not until 1752 that gibbeting was recognized by statute.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

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

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