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Tyburn|ˈtaɪbən|
Forms: 4 Tybourne, 4–7 Tyborne, 5–6 Tiborne, 5–7 Tyburne, 6 Tibourne, -burne, 6–7 Tiburn, 7 Tiborn, 8 Tybourn, 7– Tyburn.
The place of public execution for Middlesex until 1783, situated at the junction of the present Oxford Street, Bayswater Road, and Edgware Road. Hence in allusive use.[a1200Ralph de Diceto Chron. (Rolls) II. 143 (Hanging of Will. FitzOsbert in 1196) Per mediam civitatem trahitur ad furcas prope Tyburnam. Suspensus est.] 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xii. 190 Dominus pars hereditatis mee is a meri verset, Þat has take fro tybourne twenti stronge þeues. 1393Ibid. C. vii. 368 Þe hangeman of tyborne. c1450Brut 443 To be drawe fro þe Toure of London thorugh þe Citee to Tiborne, & þere hangede & quartrede. c1520Skelton Magnyf. 423 At the laste I brynge hym ryght to Tyburne, where they hange on hyght. 1580Campion in Hanmer's Answ. (1581) 24 We haue a league, all the Iesuits in the worlde..neuer to dispayre your recouerye whiles we haue a man left to enioy your tyburne or to be racked wyth your torments [etc.]. 1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 138 Many idle persons..fall into offence of lawe, and are many times eaten vp by Tyborne. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. iii. 30, I pity the Fate of Malefactors (as they go up Holborn towards Tybourn) though they deserve to be hang'd. 1783New Annual Reg. ii. 48 (Sept. 20) The malefactors..convicted last week at the Old Bailey..were executed at Tyburn.
fig.1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 32 It is the scourge, the Tamberlaine of vice, The three square Tyborne of impieties.
transf.1736Drake Eboracum i. v. 171 August 23 [1649] were executed at Tyburn near York, Colonel John Morrice and Lieutenant Blackburn. 1904B. Camm Tyburn & Eng. Mart. Introd. 12 The blessed Edmund Campion himself inaugurated this pilgrimage, just as the venerable Margaret Clitheroe began that to the York Tyburn.
b. attrib. and Comb., as Tyburn check, Tyburn coach, Tyburn collop, Tyburn face, Tyburn jig, Tyburn piccadill, Tyburn saint, Tyburn stretch, Tyburn string, Tyburn tie, Tyburn tiffany, Tyburn tribe, Tyburn wright; Tyburn blossom: see quot. 1796; Tyburn ticket, a certificate formerly granted to one who secured the conviction of a felon, exempting the holder from all parochial duties in the parish where the offence was committed; Tyburn tippet: see tippet n. 2; Tyburn top: see quot.; hence Tyburn-topped a.; Tyburn tree, the gallows.
1796Grose's Dict. Vulg. T., *Tyburn Blossom, a young thief or pickpocket, who in time will ripen into fruit borne by the deadly never-green. 1827Lytton Pelham lxxxi, As pretty a Tyburn blossom as ever was brought up to ride a horse foaled by an acorn.
c1520Skelton Magnyf. 911 A *Tyborne checke Shall breke his necke.
1829Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 27 At the tenth mile this *Tyburn-coach breaks down!
c1420? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 697 *Tyburne coloppys, and pursekytters. c1515Cocke Lorells B. 11 Tyburne collopes and peny pryckers.
1695Congreve Love for L. ii. vii, He has a damn'd *Tyburn-Face, without the Benefit o' the Clergy.
1698Farquhar Love & Bottle ii. ii, Which is best, Mr. Nimblewrist, an easy Minuet, or a *Tyburn Jigg?
1620J. Taylor (Water P.) Hempseed Preamble 38 Till they put on a *Tyburne Pickadill.
1785Wolcott (P. Pindar) Odes to R. Acad. v. 16 Your *Tyburn Saints will not your fame increase.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 214 To beg in age, Or else to fetch a *Tibourne stretch.
1882J. Walker Jaunt to Auld Reekie 4 He should dangle in a *Tyburn string.
1796Colquhoun Police of Metropolis 203 For apprehending, and prosecuting to conviction, any person charged with horse-stealing, a *Tyburn ticket. 1813Examiner 12 Apr. 232/1 Mr. Burton was also robbed,..for which a man suffered death, on whose conviction the worthy old man received a Tyburn Ticket. 1816Rep. Committee on Police of Metropolis 4 Is it not customary to give what is called ‘a Tyburn Ticket’ on some occasions?
1828Lights & Shades II. 186 His brother was about to endure..the ‘*Tyburn-tie’.
1612Rowlands Knave of Harts 4 Neuer regarding Hang-mans feare, Till *Tyburne-tiffany he weare. 1549*Tyburn tippet [see tippet n. 2]. 1647Trapp Comm. 1 Cor. xiii. 3 And how many of our Popish Martyrs..have worne the Tiburn-tippet, as Father Latimer phraseth it? 1830A. E. Bray Fitz of F. xxiv, Your glories aspire to a Tyburn tippet, and that will be the end of them.
1796Grose's Dict. Vulg. T., *Tyburn Top, or Foretop, a wig with the foretop combed over the eyes in a knowing style.
1774Foote Cozeners i. Wks. 1799 II. 153 See him on the turf, at Newmarket, in his *Tyburn-topp'd wig, tight boots, and round hat.
1727Gay Begg. Op. iii. xiii, I wonder we han't better Company, Upon *Tyburn Tree! 1851Borrow Lavengro xxxix, Tyburn tree had long since been cut down.
1717Rowe Cruel Gift Epil. 29 That *Tyburn-tribe of speech-making Non-jurors.
1589[? Lyly] Pappe w. Hatchet B iij b, We neither feare Martin,..nor of what occupation hee be, be a ship-wright, cart-wright, or *tiburn-wright.
c. to preach at Tyburn cross, to be hanged; in reference to the speeches permitted to those about to be executed.
1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. (Arb.) 55 That Soldiours sterue, or prech at Tiborne crosse. |