Meaning of шыбеніца | Babel Free

Definitions

gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)

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Examples

“S pad szubienicy maskouskoj prychodzić mnie da was pisaci, i może raz astatni.”

I happen to be writing to you from beneath the Muscovite gallows, and perhaps for the last time.

“Zrazumiejcia, bratcy, szto tyja ludzi, szto ciapier na szybienicach hinuć, hnijuć pa astrohach carskich, heta praûdziwyja swiatyja;”

Heed, brothers, that these people, who are now perishing on the gallows and rotting in tsarist prisons, are true saints;

“Вероўки шубениц скрыпяць.”

The ropes of the gallows creak.

“"Here's luck," "A fair wind," and "Billy Bones his fancy," were very neatly and clearly executed on the forearm; and up near the shoulder there was a sketch of a gallows and a man hanging from it—done, as I thought, with great spirit.”

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