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Tyburn
[ tahy-bern ]
noun
- a former place of public execution in London, England.
Tyburn
/ ˈtaɪbɜːn /
noun
- (formerly) a place of execution in London, on the River Tyburn (a tributary of the Thames, now entirely below ground)
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Example Sentences
Jerry Abershawe was a hero of this stamp, only he did not make his last appearance on so fashionable a stage as Tyburn.
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All at once I bethought me that this street of Oxford was no other than the far-famed Tyburn way.
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If you walley my precious life don't upset me, as the gen'l'm'n said to the driver when they was a-carryin' him to Tyburn.'
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I asked a bystander where they were going and what was to be done to them, for I did not know at the time that I was near Tyburn.
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The Recorder then proceeded to pass sentence on him; in pursuance of which, he was executed at Tyburn on the 17th March, 1718.
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