Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ravenstone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: raven-stone
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A place of execution; gallows

noun

British usage

name

A village and civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8450).

name

A village in Ravenstone with Snibston parish, North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4013).

Example Sentences

"[...] — The raven sits / On the raven-stone, And his black wing flits / O'er the milk-white bone; [...]"
"Three years later, in 1811, King Friedrich of Wurttemberg ordered the dismantling of permanent gallows and ravenstones and the ending of the practice of exposing malefactors' corpses."
"In 1811, for instance, King Friedrich of Württemberg ordered that the permanent gallows and ravenstones be dismantled and that the exposure of dead criminal bodies should be abandoned."

Etymology

From a calque of German Rabenstein, equivalent to raven + stone.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Rabenstein

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

ravenstones (plural) raven-stone (alternative) raven stone (alternative)

Questions

What does ravenstone mean?: A place of execution; gallows
Where does ravenstone come from?: It is traced to German.

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