Tyburn

[ tahy-bern ]

noun

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

Tyburn

/ ˈtaɪbɜːn /

noun

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

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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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