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ravenstone

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from Rabenstein

Definitions

  1. A place of execution

    A place of execution; gallows

    • [...] — 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.

  2. A gravestone

  3. A village and civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England (OS…

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

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A village in Ravenstone with Snibston parish, North West Leicestershire district,…

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

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