| 单词 | raven-stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasraven-stone raven-stone n. [after German Rabenstein (16th cent.)] a place of execution. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows gallowsOE gallows-treea1000 warytre?a1200 gibbet?c1225 gallow-forka1250 forkc1275 juisec1320 forchesc1380 crossa1382 treec1425 patible1428 justice1484 potencec1500 haltera1533 turning-tree1548 potentc1550 three treesa1566 chates1567 mare1568 furel1587 bough1590 gibe1590 derrickc1600 hangrella1605 cross-tree1638 Gregorian tree1641 wooden horse1642 timber-marec1650 triple tree1651 furca1653 nubbing1673 a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678 nub1699 Tyburn tree1728 raven-stone1738 picture frame1785 crap1789 lamp-iron1790 Moll Blood1818 stifler1818 scragging-post1819 government signposta1828 leafless tree1830 shuggie-shue1836 doom-tree1837 stob1860–62 1738 Curious Relations I. 127 One of the Crew cried out, Let us carry them to Raven-stone (the Place of Execution) and shoot them dead. 1817 Ld. Byron Manfred iii. i. 74 The raven sits On the raven-stone. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. xxiv. 251 What weave they there round the raven-stone? 1996 R. J. Evans Rituals of Retribution i. 49 (caption) Note the priests attending the malefactors, the ravenstone,..and the gentry and women among the spectators. < as lemmas |
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