Tyburn

[ tahy-bern ]

noun
  1. a former place of public execution in London, England.

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How to use Tyburn in a sentence

  • Jerry Abershawe was a hero of this stamp, only he did not make his last appearance on so fashionable a stage as Tyburn.

  • All at once I bethought me that this street of Oxford was no other than the far-famed Tyburn way.

    Lavengro | George Borrow
  • 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.'

    The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens
  • 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.

    Hurricane Hurry | W.H.G. Kingston
  • The Recorder then proceeded to pass sentence on him; in pursuance of which, he was executed at Tyburn on the 17th March, 1718.

British Dictionary definitions for Tyburn

Tyburn

/ (ˈtaɪbɜːn) /


noun
  1. (formerly) a place of execution in London, on the River Tyburn (a tributary of the Thames, now entirely below ground)

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