Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaunched
Literary usage of Gaunched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... and therefore, whereas hee should have beene gaunched, now he shall bee but
Hanged by the necke. Whereat the poore soule presently repented, ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... take gaunched (throwne from the wall on a hooke) or crucified, them downe
aA •%* i • /- i • i and stone or "ayed a*lve : to tne execution of which ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"If a Christian commits a small fault, he is burned alive, or stamped in the
earth * as in a Mortar, or gaunched (throwne from the wall on a hooke) or ..."
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