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Gibbeting is the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hanged on public display to deter other existing...27 KB (3,434 words) - 17:20, 7 November 2024
8674 The Halifax Gibbet /ˈhælɪfæks ˈdʒɪbɪt/ was an early guillotine used in the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Estimated to have been installed...25 KB (3,346 words) - 23:10, 13 September 2024
Combe Gibbet is a gibbet at the top of Gallows Down, near the village and just within the civil parish of Combe in Berkshire (formerly Hampshire), England...9 KB (678 words) - 03:33, 10 July 2023
The Gibbet of Montfaucon (French: Gibet de Montfaucon) was the main gallows and gibbet of the Kings of France until the time of Louis XIII of France. It...8 KB (903 words) - 04:05, 7 November 2024- Caxton Gibbet is a small knoll on Ermine Street (now the A1198) in England, running between London and Huntingdon, near its crossing with the road (now...4 KB (621 words) - 00:52, 1 November 2024
- Gibbet Hill may refer to: Gibbet Hill (County Wexford), a summit and marilyn in Ireland Gibbet Hill (Massachusetts), a summit in the United States Gibbet...547 bytes (95 words) - 17:31, 19 October 2024
- "Gibbet Hill" is an 1890 short story by Bram Stoker first published in a Christmas supplement of the Daily Express Dublin Edition. The story was unknown...2 KB (265 words) - 20:04, 5 November 2024
53°13′50″N 1°34′32″W / 53.2306°N 1.5755°W / 53.2306; -1.5755 Gibbet Moor is a small gritstone upland area in the Derbyshire Peak District of central...6 KB (683 words) - 20:33, 21 August 2024- Gibbet Mill may refer to a number of windmills: Gibbet Mill, Rye, East Sussex Gibbet Mill, Great Saughall, a windmill in Great Saughall, Cheshire, UK Gibbet...277 bytes (60 words) - 19:13, 2 February 2023
Gibbet Hill is a summit in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The elevation is 469 feet (143 m). According to tradition, the name recalls an incident when...973 bytes (92 words) - 19:54, 12 April 2024- The Gibbet Rath executions /ˈdʒɪbət ræθ/, sometimes called the Gibbet Rath massacre, refers to the execution of several hundred surrendering rebels by...8 KB (969 words) - 12:57, 11 March 2024
Cross (redirect from Furca (gibbet))rise to Old French crocier (modern French crosse), the term for a shepherd's crook, adopted in English as crosier. Latin crux referred to the gibbet where...27 KB (2,830 words) - 08:01, 11 November 2024
Gibbet Hill, at Hindhead, Surrey, is the apex of the scarp surrounding the Devil's Punch Bowl, not far from the A3 London to Portsmouth road in England...8 KB (884 words) - 19:14, 20 October 2024
Gibbet Mill, Tillingham Mill, Barry's Mill or New Mill is a grade II listed cosmetically reconstructed smock mill at Rye, East Sussex, England. Today it...4 KB (335 words) - 12:42, 11 December 2022
shall set them into those three openings thinking to adore the hallows that are beyond." The Halifax Gibbet in England was a wooden structure consisting of...41 KB (4,665 words) - 21:51, 13 November 2024- Gibbet Island is an island of Bermuda. It is located at the mouth of Flatt's Inlet which leads to Harrington Sound. Its name arises from the fact that...1 KB (138 words) - 23:10, 10 October 2024
- Fruit (slang) (redirect from Fruit of the gibbet)to the lynchings of black people in the American South, in reference to the jazz song of that name popularised by Billie Holiday. Fruit of the gibbet...51 KB (5,076 words) - 03:30, 27 October 2024
Ellis Island (redirect from Gibbet Island)for pirates, with executions occurring at one tree in particular, the "Gibbet Tree". However, there is scant evidence that this was common practice. Little...225 KB (21,552 words) - 03:59, 23 October 2024- Flibbertigibbet (redirect from Flibberty-gibbet)Flibber-ti-gibbet, a read in rhyme book designed to educate children about the traits of ADHD. In 2022 British politician Lord Cormack referred to Michael...6 KB (660 words) - 00:56, 15 November 2024
the ship's hull. In modern usage the term has come to mean almost exclusively a scaffold or gibbet used for execution by hanging. The term "gallows" was...7 KB (809 words) - 06:08, 9 November 2024
- Latin gibbus (“hunchbacked”). IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪbɪt/ Rhymes: -ɪbɪt gibbet (plural gibbets) An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent
- "Gibbet Hill" (1890) Bram Stoker 4641627"Gibbet Hill"1890Bram Stoker Gibbet Hill. ⎣All Rights Reserved.⎦ (By Bram Stoker.) When I left the Royal Huts
- restauration et de la monarchie élective (1831) I see that God died on a gibbet eighteen hundred years ago on behalf of the Bourbon family. A sceptic of
- to Archer for protection. When Gibbet enters, Archer takes him prisoner and with the help of Aimwell rescues Lady Bountiful and Dorinda from Gibbet's