gibbet
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈgɪbɪt/
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cadalso
- And he'll speak his apologies from the gibbet... to this unfortunate girl and all her kin.
- hung from a gibbet
Examples
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From here, on occasion, an inmate was led to the gibbet on the courthouse green.
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As a warning to others... his body has been left on a gibbet, just outside the town.
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I grant you England is where he should be... hanging from a gibbet with the rest of you scum of the sea!
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One word from me, you know, and you'll be hanging from a gibbet.
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Who will know, when you're swinging from the gibbet?
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As the cart neared the crest, the people at the end broke ranks and pressed around the gibbet in a great circle.
Fiction book (1995) -
The scene also includes a gibbet in the middle distance and a soldier hanged from a tree in the right foreground, indicating the kinds of retribution that the soldiers attacking the carriage in the center foreground may face.
Academic text (2014) -
As a warning to others, his body has been left on a gibbet, just outside the town.
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His mother could neither go into nor out of her cabin without seeing his body swinging from the gibbet.
Synonyms
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8.7
A raised platform where people are put to death in public
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7.5
A wooden frame used to kill people by hanging
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9.9
A tree or frame used to hang people as punishment
A wooden frame with two posts and a crossbeam for hanging people
A wooden frame used in the past for hanging people as punishment
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gibbet comes from an old French word gibet, which named the gallows and may come from a root meaning 'hump' because the wooden beam looked bent like a hump. So a gibbet is the post or crossbeam used to hang criminals.