Sentence example with the word 'gibbet'

gibbet

Definition n. alternative terms for gallows

Last update: June 26, 2015


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Joan of Arc was tied to the gibbet and burned to death.   [Please select]

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Among the curious customs of Halifax was the Gibbet Law, which was probably established by a prescriptive right to protect the wool trade, and gave the inhabitants the power of executing any one taken within their liberty, who, when tried by a jury of sixteen of the frith-burgesses, was found guilty of the theft of any goods of the value of more than 13d.   [Please select]

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That gibbet is always good to look at.   [Please select]

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There it hung bruised and dead, gibbeted to its own cradle.   [Please select]

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"The family gibbet, I presume, is in good working order."   [Please select]

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The time has come to set up the Frog's gibbet made famous by Gleditsch.   [Please select]

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Not the least scrape of a claw is delivered at the foot of the gibbet.   [Please select]

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Will they scrape at the foot of the gibbet in order to overturn it.   [Please select]

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