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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TYBURN TICKET

Ty "burn tick `et. Etym: [So called in allusion to Tyburn, formerly a place of execution in England. ] (O. Eng. Law )

 

Defn: A certificate given to one who prosecutes a felon to conviction, exempting him from certain parish and ward offices.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

Tyburn

Tyburn |ˈtʌɪbəːn | a place in London, near Marble Arch, where public hangings were held c. 1300 –1783. ORIGIN named after a tributary of the Thames, which flows in an underground culvert nearby.

 

Oxford Dictionary

Tyburn

Tyburn |ˈtʌɪbəːn | a place in London, near Marble Arch, where public hangings were held c. 1300 –1783. ORIGIN named after a tributary of the Thames, which flows in an underground culvert nearby.