gibbet in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for gibbet in the English»Spanish Dictionary

gibbet in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for gibbet in the English»Spanish Dictionary

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The body was left to hang in a gibbet cage for many a year and became a local ghoulish tourist attraction.
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A man wakes up in an iron gibbet, aware that he has committed the crime he is being punished for, but unaware what the crime was.
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The priest had remained quite still, his finger still raised to the gibbet, and his gesture unchanged, like a statue.
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There he was hanged from a gibbet until dead.
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The tribunal found her guilty and sentenced her to hang, her body after to be hanged in chains (that is, put up for public display on a gibbet).
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More were hung from gibbets erected along the roadside.
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Here, the body was placed into an iron gibbet cage.
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The gibbet was placed in such a prominent location as a warning, to deter others from committing crimes.
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The body was taken down and quartered, his head was nailed to the gibbet, but soon removed.
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Others told that a soldier shinnied up the gibbet to grab the noose, twist the rope and raise the condemned off the ground.
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