英语词汇ride backwards up holburn hill的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

ride backwards up Holburn Hill. To go to one’s own hang- ing. Up until 1784, the year of the last execution at Tyburn in London, condemned men would go to the gallows riding back- wards on a horse all the way up Holburn Hill, which rose steep- ly from Newgate Prison to the gallows at Tyburn. According to one account, “Some conceive the practice to increase the igno- miny, but it is more probably to prevent the condemned from being shocked with a distant view of the gallows, as in amputa- tions surgeons conceal the instruments with which they are go- ing to operate.”

词汇	ride backwards up holburn hill
词源	ride backwards up Holburn Hill. To go to one’s own hang- ing. Up until 1784, the year of the last execution at Tyburn in London, condemned men would go to the gallows riding back- wards on a horse all the way up Holburn Hill, which rose steep- ly from Newgate Prison to the gallows at Tyburn. According to one account, “Some conceive the practice to increase the igno- miny, but it is more probably to prevent the condemned from being shocked with a distant view of the gallows, as in amputa- tions surgeons conceal the instruments with which they are go- ing to operate.”
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