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- verb UK Present participle of
gibbet .
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Examples
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You will then about the coming of the end of that time (for your cube must be made on the eve of the day come seven years of his gibbetting) get you together these several matters, all well dried and powdered and finely searced so much as three barley corns weight of each
The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923
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His Britannic Majesty’s Government had always taxed liquors imported from abroad; those were customs duties, and smuggling very popular on the Cornish, Devon and Dorset coasts was punishable by death and gibbetting.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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His Britannic Majesty’s Government had always taxed liquors imported from abroad; those were customs duties, and smuggling very popular on the Cornish, Devon and Dorset coasts was punishable by death and gibbetting.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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