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Gibbet 1

Definition: 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.

Gibbet 2

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

Gibbet 3

Definition: To hang and expose on a gibbet.

Gibbet 4

Definition: To expose to infamy; to blacken.

gibbet 5

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

gibbet 6

Definition: expose to ridicule or public scorn

gibbet 7

Definition: hang on an execution instrument

 

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