Crossword clues for lynched
lynched
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lynch \Lynch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lynched; p. pr. & vb. n. Lynching.] [See Note under Lynch law.] To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: lynch)
Usage examples of "lynched".
I thought maybe you already knew your great-granddaddy lynched that man in the picture, my own great-granddaddy, rest his soul.
When the homesteader died a few days later—this was July of 1895—the men went to Juno and took Sam Lewis out and lynched him, and shot the nigger jailkeeper while they was at it.
They started in to drinking and concluded pretty quick that Watson's nigra would be much better off lynched, just to be on the safe side.
That feller was as good as lynched, my Carrie tells me, not because he deserved to die but because that's what the local people howled for.
But I most certainly won't permit my mother and sister to be lynched with you.
During his campaign John Rand was lynched, and as he had opposed the election, it was hinted that Blackstone may have had something to do with the lynching.
But so many have been written since the real Black Jack was lynched, years ago, that his would-be second coming could be out to do wonders that never happened, and.
Don't it strike you odd that a man lynched in Virginia City would have a wife named Virginia dumb enough to bury him in Utah on the way to Illinois from Montana?
The big question is whether he means to leave it east of the South Pass and head north to get lynched some more, or follow the trail west to Salt Lake City and put flowers on his own grave.
Marjorie Kavanagh says it won’t last, and he’ll be lynched before spring.