Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun now historical A village in
Middlesex , where publichangings for the Middlesex area were carried out until 1783.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Tyburn.
Examples
-
Arch (then called Tyburn) to Edgware as being infested by highwaymen.
Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham
-
And if this be true, then let Jesuits and seminary priests take heed and fear, lest it be not faith, but faction; not truth, but treason; not religion, but rebellion; beginning at Tiber and ending at Tyburn, which is the cause of their deaths.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
-
The name is derived from a brook called Tyburn, which flowed down from Hampstead into the Thames, supplying in its way a large pond in the Green Park, and also the celebrated Rosamond's Pond in St. James's Park.
The Pink Flamingo 2008
-
An earlier 'Tyburn' version is a song entitled 'A Warning to False Traitors, 'which refers to the execution of six people at' Tyborne 'on August 30, 1588.
Charles Dickens and Music Lightwood, James T 1912
-
Hopefully the weather will get better, but I guess a little bit of rain won't do any harm for a play about people getting hung at Tyburn and Newgate prison…Television, films, theatre, you've tried it all.
-
In 1738 the problem was a shortage of rope, as Samuel Johnson wrote in his poem, London: "Scarce can our fields, such crowds at Tyburn die, / With hemp the gallows and the fleet supply."
-
Richard Langhorne (b. about 1635, d. at Tyburn, 14 July, 1679) Layman, husband, lawyer, and martyr for the Faith.
27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm. John 2009
-
I have borrowed one of the Tyburn joining the Thames at Vauxhall.
-
Richard Langhorne (b. about 1635, d. at Tyburn, 14 July, 1679) Layman, husband, lawyer, and martyr for the Faith.
14 July - Bl Richard Langhorne John 2009
-
Hopefully the weather will get better, but I guess a little bit of rain won't do any harm for a play about people getting hung at Tyburn and Newgate prison…Television, films, theatre, you've tried it all.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.