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noun

Gibbet 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 as a warning.

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

verb

Gibbet v. t. (past & past part. gibbeted; pres. part. gibbeting)

To hang and expose on a gibbet.

To expose to infamy; to blacken. "I'll gibbet up his name."

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Etymology of 'Gibbet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gibbet" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Beneath the gibbet's self perhaps is laid, Some heart once pregnant with infernal fire, Hands that the sword of Nero might have swayed, And midst the carnage tuned the ...

— History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange

... running disorderly and fast we made for the Port, while English men-at-arms might be plainly seen and heard, gazing, waving their hands, and shouting from the battlements of the two gate-towers. Down the road we ran, past certain small houses of peasants, and past a gibbet with a marauder hanging from it, just ...

— A Monk of Fife • Andrew Lang

... you? None, I believe, ever thought that before. But the same wood, I suppose, that makes the gibbet could make the mast of a man-of-war. I tell you, however, why you have taken this fancy to me,—the strong sympathize with the strong. You, ...

— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... hanged by the neck till they were dead, on a gallows erected for that purpose at the cross roads of the Croix-du-Trahoir; their bodies to remain there for twenty-four hours, then to be cut down and brought back to Paris, where they were to be exposed an a gibbet," etc., etc. ...

— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - LA CONSTANTIN--1660 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... hang Undy Scott, I think I should deter some others. The figure of Undy swinging from a gibbet at the broad end of Lombard Street would have an effect. Ah! my fingers itch to be at ...

— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope

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