All 3 Uses of
effigy
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- He is learned in old manorial and communal rights, and he applies his knowledge sometimes in favour of the villagers of Fernworthy and sometimes against them, so that he is periodically either carried in triumph down the village street or else burned in effigy, according to his latest exploit.†
Chpt 8burned in effigy = burned a crude straw man or dummy made to represent a person
- I have no doubt, for example, that the Fernworthy people will burn me in effigy to-night.†
Chpt 11effigy = a model or other representation
- For all they cared it might have been me, instead of my effigy, which these rascals burned at the stake.†
Chpt 11 *
Definition:
a model or other representation -- typically of a person -- often of someone hated, so that it can be mocked and abused