tyburn
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A manor, first mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086).
name
The Tyburn tree, a gallows where public hangings were carried out until 1783.
name
A former village in Middlesex, England (present-day Greater London), notable for its proximity to the Tyburn tree.
Example Sentences
- "Tyburn manor house was used as a hunting lodge by both Henry VIII and Elizabeth I; it was demolished in 1791.'"
- "The ringleaders of the gang were eventually hanged at Tyburn."
- "The Tyburn villagers suffered considerably from the unruliness and vandalism of the people who gathered to watch the executions, and relocated closer to the manor house, to found what would become known as Marylebone, named after the Tyburn parish church of Saint Mary.'"
- "Unthryftynes in hym may well be shewed, / For whome Tyborne groneth both daye and nyghte."
- "1889, "Tyburn Tree", entry in Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories, page 1046, Tyburn Tree (The), a gallows so called because criminals were at one time hung on the elm trees which grew on the banks of the Tyburn."
Derived Forms
Tyburnia
Tyburnian
Phrases
Synonyms
River Tyburn
Ty Bourne
Tyburn Brook