Gibbet

[gib·bet]

A gibbet is a structure that's used to execute criminals by hanging them. The execution of someone on a gibbet is an old fashioned practice.

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A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.

Noun
instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging

Verb
expose to ridicule or public scorn

Verb
hang on an execution instrument

n.
A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.

n.
The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.

v. t.
To hang and expose on a gibbet.

v. t.
To expose to infamy; to blacken.

Gibbet

Gib"bet , n. [OE. gibet, F. gibet, in OF. also club, fr. LL. gibetum;; cf. OF. gibe sort of sickle or hook, It. giubbetto gibbet, and giubbetta, dim. of giubba mane, also, an under waistcoat, doublet, Prov. It. gibba (cf. Jupon); so that it perhaps originally signified a halter, a rope round the neck of malefactors; or it is, perhaps, derived fr. L. gibbus hunched, humped, E. gibbous; or cf. E. jib a sail.] 1. A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning. 2. The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.

Gibbet

Gib"bet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gibbeted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gibbeting.] 1. To hang and expose on a gibbet. 2. To expose to infamy; to blacken.
I'll gibbet up his name.

A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.

To hang and expose on a gibbet.

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