Meaning of ravenstone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A village and civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8450).
2. A place of execution; gallows
   historical
3. A village in Ravenstone with Snibston parish, North West Leicestershire district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK4013).
4. A gravestone
   UK, dialectal

Examples

“[...] — 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.”

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