Tyburn

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Tyburn

  1. (historical) A village in Middlesex, England where public hangings were carried out until 1783.
    • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
      Unthryftynes in hym may well be shewed, / For whome Tyborne groneth both daye and nyghte.

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