Word: gibbets
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...looked like a gibbet, nailed to the white railing fence of the newly opened Branchdale Racing Park near Holly Hill. A noose dangled from it, well out over the dirt track. Few of the well-dressed South Carolinians in the cars lining the rail were old enough to recognize it. It was a truss for goose pulling...
...condemned were spared on account of youth. The other six, having ample resources, appealed again & again. Four times they narrowly missed the gibbet. Last month they lost another, apparently final appeal to London's Privy Council...
Rembrandt (1606-69), less interested in objective accuracy and less patient, enclosed the general looks of things with parenthetical stabs of his pen, gave them loose cloaks of broadly brushed shadow. His eight sketches at the Metropolitan (a woman hanging from a gibbet, a burgher sitting on a step, etc.) described not only what he saw but what he felt about...
...bloodiest corners of the Spanish Main in the spirit of unabashed poltroonery that has become his principal stock in trade. From the moment he pokes his head through an introductory title to announce that he plays a coward to the moment when he gazes apprehensively at a gibbet being erected in his honor and murmurs queasily, "Slumber lumber," Hope makes it clear that his gallantry is mighty small-caliber. When his beautiful co-captive (Virginia Mayo) on the pirate ship snatches away the protection of her wide skirt and asks him in the thick of battle...
...public opinion did not underwrite the verdict. While the gibbet was being erected outside her cell, medical men and newspapers insisted on her innocence...