单词 | triple tree |
释义 | triple treen. Cant. Now Historical or archaic. A gallows (in reference to its three parts). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows gallowsOE gallows-treea1000 warytre?a1200 gibbet?c1225 gallow-forka1250 forkc1275 juisec1320 forchesc1380 crossa1382 treec1425 patible1428 justice1484 potencec1500 haltera1533 turning-tree1548 potentc1550 three treesa1566 chates1567 mare1568 furel1587 bough1590 gibe1590 derrickc1600 hangrella1605 cross-tree1638 Gregorian tree1641 wooden horse1642 timber-marec1650 triple tree1651 furca1653 nubbing1673 a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678 nub1699 Tyburn tree1728 raven-stone1738 picture frame1785 crap1789 lamp-iron1790 Moll Blood1818 stifler1818 scragging-post1819 government signposta1828 leafless tree1830 shuggie-shue1836 doom-tree1837 stob1860–62 1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty iv. i. 30/1 This is a Rascal deserves to ride up Holborn, And take a pilgrimage to the triple-tree, To dance in Hemp Derricks Caranto. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 181 Being come to the tripple Tree, he..set his Foot on the Ladder. 1862 G. A. Sala Ship-chandler i. 5 Busy as was the triple tree.., they could not hang all the rogues they convicted. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1651 |
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