单词 | rope law |
释义 | > as lemmasrope law rope law n. now rare hanging; lynch law. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] hanginga1300 hangmentc1440 gallows1483 gibbet1502 Tyburn checka1529 Tyburn stretch1573 caudle of hempseed1588 hempen caudle1588 swinging1591 rope law1592 rope-leap1611 cording1619 turn1631 nubbing1673 cravatting1683 gibbetation1689 topping1699 Tyburn jig1699 noosing1819 scragging1819 Tyburn tie1828 Newgate hornpipe1829 dance upon nothing1841 drop1887 suspension1909 1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxvii. 169 Both did fault in one same ill, Yeat rope-law had the Youth, the Fryar liu'd Clergie-knaued still. 1846 Southern & Western Literary Messenger & Rev. 12 113/1 But I'll have him hanged, as his uncle was, if there's rope-law in Georgia! 2003 G. McCaughrean Show Stopper 44 Jack Shakespeare preferred his workers violent and unthinking. Let them once stoop to Rope Law and they would be in his power ever after. < as lemmas |
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