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🪦 A gallows 🪦 To hang publicly 😳 To shame publicly
to gibbet

to gibbet

1 9.9
To hang a dead body on a frame for public display
  • verb
  • /ˈgɪbɪt/
  • NSFW
translation icon : exhibir
  • In the dark ages, those who committed serious crimes would be gibbeted in public as a warning to others.

They also the six leaders were drawn and quartered and King Court was gibbeted alive.

Examples

  • The bodies were gibbeted in public and Cromwell's head was struck off.

  • Yet even you, Pendleton, (LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE) who should have been gibbeted for treason long before today.

    Lincoln (2012)

  • The criminal's lifeless body was gibbeted at the town square to serve as a grim reminder of the consequences of his actions.

  • After their execution, the bodies were gibbeted to deter anyone else from breaking the law.

Synonyms

to pillory
vsto gibbet
  • Archaic
1 9.9

To put someone in a wooden frame with holes for the head and hands for public shame

hangs or exposes a body as execution and public warning

Surface Forms

gibbet infinitive
gibbeted past
gibbeted past participle
gibbetting present participle
gibbets third person singular

Etymology

Gibbet as a verb comes from the noun gibbet (the gallows), so to gibbet someone originally meant to hang their body on that post or leave it there for everyone to see.