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

The rig looked like a gibbet, nailed to the white railing fence of the newly opened Branchdale Racing Park near Holly Hill.

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

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 was a sad and strange sight to behold all these elegant cavaliers and beautiful women passing, like one of the processions which Goya has painted, under the blackened skeletons and tall grim gibbets.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

She thinketh him gibbeted, and—” Here the door was flung open suddenly, and in rushed another soldier.

From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed

Voltaire forgave his when he had gibbeted them in his writings.

From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by G. W. (George William) Foote

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 G. A. Chadwick

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

"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

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

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

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

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

From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

I think your success in gibbeting me is not certain.

From Romola by George Eliot