List of synonyms from "giant wave" to synonyms from "gift of gab"
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Definition of the day : « gibbeting »
- As in choke : verb smother, block
- As in hang : verb kill by suspension from a rope
- It was not until 1752 that gibbeting was recognized by statute.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 » by Various
- This Act made matters clear, and was the means of gibbeting rapidly increasing in this country.
- Extract from : « Bygone Punishments » by William Andrews
- Lincolnshire history supplies some curious details respecting the gibbeting of a man named Tom Otter, in the year 1806.
- Extract from : « Bygone Punishments » by William Andrews
- To Kleinwort there was a certain humour in the idea of first gibbeting a man as a rogue, and then treating him as a simpleton.
- Extract from : « Mortomley's Estate, Vol. II (of 3) » by Charlotte Elizabeth Lawson Cowan Riddell
- As for the members of the other societies, he was for gibbeting their principles only.
- Extract from : « Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. I (of 16) » by Thomas Hart Benton
- Thus the practice of gibbeting on a cross was in use at least as early as in the days of King David.
- Extract from : « Hanging in Chains » by Albert Hartshorne
- But still the gibbeting did not form, as it never has formed, part of the legal sentence.
- Extract from : « Hanging in Chains » by Albert Hartshorne
- The gibbeting of the bodies of executed persons does not seem to have been general.
- Extract from : « Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony » by George Francis Dow
- It walks abroad, it continues its ravages, whilst you are gibbeting the carcase, or demolishing the tomb.
- Extract from : « Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke » by Edmund Burke