Sentences with word «gibbet»

The word "gibbet" refers to a kind of wooden or metal structure used in the past to hang or display the bodies of executed criminals in public places as a warning or punishment. Full definition
Mark was hanged and his body gibbeted, and Phillis burned at the stake, at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
After identifying the dominance of penal dissection throughout the period, it looks at the abandonment of burning at the stake in the 1790s, the rapid decline of hanging in chains just after 1800, and the final abandonment of both dissection and gibbeting in 1832 and 1834.
Dorothy Sayers writes: We can not blink at the fact that gentle Jesus meek and mild was so stiff in his opinions and so inflammatory in his language that he was thrown out of church, stoned, hunted from place to place, and finally gibbeted as a firebrand and a public danger.
It is hard for the unfortunate Cameron to persuade the British people that you are a nice guy leading a party of decent people when a substantial number of your own followers are baying for raw meat, blood on the carpet, gibbets at Westminster.
When Bishop Trautman of Erie complained about unfamiliar words being used, bloggers jokingly vied with eachother to include the words «ineffable», «wrought» and «gibbet» into ordinary posts.
Growth in biological terms is the process by which the body builds a gibbet of protein and fills this in -LSB-...]
Growth in biological terms is the process by which the body builds a gibbet of protein and fills this in with bone, a calcium rich mineral.
This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder.
This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting («hanging in chains»), since the nineteenth century.
I have eyed up a dangling noose, but it looks like someone else has already tried Elmgreen & Dragset's gibbet (the frayed rope lies useless on the floor).
In Blow the Man Down, two silhouetted figures, their heads and hands in stocks, stand on a gibbet - like platform, while a third is bound to the supporting post, back exposed once again.
«These were the days before CV blind policies, and his dismissal of my university choice was withering — the «Hull, Hell and Halifax» reference is actually from The Beggar's Litany and lists the three things thieves in the 17th century feared most — hell, for obvious reasons, the Hull jail and the Halifax gibbet — a particularly nasty execution tool.
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