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A gibbet (/ˈdʒɪbɪt/) is any instrument of public execution (including guillotine, executioner's block, impalement stake, hanging gallows, or related scaffold)...27 KB (3,440 words) - 18:36, 7 May 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
8674 The Halifax Gibbet /ˈhælɪfæks ˈdʒɪbɪt/ was an early guillotine used in the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Estimated to have been installed...24 KB (3,335 words) - 20:02, 13 April 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 (633 words) - 08:31, 27 February 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...480 bytes (84 words) - 19:17, 2 February 2023
- 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
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) - 12:46, 9 May 2024
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
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 (2,815 words) - 22:13, 30 March 2024
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 (4,654 words) - 22:34, 8 May 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...7 KB (793 words) - 16:51, 25 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
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...5 KB (676 words) - 22:06, 30 March 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 (5,061 words) - 15:40, 20 March 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 (135 words) - 21:40, 29 September 2023
impale", and was applied also to the gibbet of Jesus' execution; but the shape of the gibbet is compared by Origen to that of the letter Τ. The final...58 KB (7,567 words) - 03:45, 28 March 2024
Gibbet Hill is the location of, and name for, the University of Warwick's southern campus, in the south of Coventry, England. The Gibbet Hill campus is...4 KB (545 words) - 20:19, 11 June 2023- 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 (657 words) - 15:08, 22 February 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 (799 words) - 07:00, 1 April 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 (21,475 words) - 23:23, 8 May 2024
- Latin gibbus (“hunchbacked”). IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪbɪt/ Rhymes: -ɪbɪt gibbet (plural gibbets) An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent
- from one gibbet and said to the guards, “Who did this, and where is the tenth gibbet?” But they denied all knowledge of it, and I was about to beat them
- 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
- he was not in a passion. He said "then d—n him. Follow him to the end of the earth and gibbet him. What would he not do in Passion?" The child died, and