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

But, without the dire consequences predicted by Ellenborough, gibbet and gallows were prescribed for fewer & fewer crimes.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Berault mounts the gibbet, the frame cuts off six steps.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Boston, Wendell Phillips, Abolitionist and reformer, commended those who looked “upon that gibbet of John Brown, not as the scaffold of a felon, but as the cross of a martyr.”

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

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

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

From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Spence, Lewis

Have peasants ever done these things--and not perished sooner or later on gibbets and in dungeons?

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

It is a great penalty to pay for greatness to be gibbeted in this fashion.

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James

There I shall be, gibbeted in that woman's smile!

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

The cause he persecuted has made deathless the banished refugee, and has gibbeted the great monarch as a tyrant, whose misplanned severities wrought the ruin of his successor and his army.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by Chadwick, G. A.

Impunity seems assured him, for what peasant would be mad enough to attack a master who could have him gibbeted at a word?

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

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 Barclay, Alexander

I think your success in gibbeting me is not certain.

From Romola by Eliot, George

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 Andrews, William

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 England, George Allan

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 Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

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