gibbet

Speech parts

1. gibbet - Noun

2. gibbet - Verb

Meaning

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.

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

To hang and expose on a gibbet.

To expose to infamy; to blacken.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

gallows stake scaffold pillory gallows tree gallous lynch derrick hangman gib pitchfork jib balata stifler block
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Antonyms

adore celebrate acclaim hail admire cheer
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Hypernyms

gallows display exhibit hang expose string up

Phrases with the word

send to the gibbet

Derivatives

gibbeted gibbeting

Examples

At times the gibbet was only one vertical stake, called in Latin crux simplex. Source: Internet

Reports of queuing traffic due to accident on A428 between B1040 St Ives Road (Eltisley) and A1198 Ermine Street South (Caxton Gibbet). Source: Internet

In the 1760s, after some pirates were hanged from one of the island's scrubby trees, it became known as Gibbet Island. Source: Internet

It is not known when the Halifax Gibbet was first used; the first recorded execution in Halifax dates from 1280, but that execution may have been by sword, axe, or the gibbet. Source: Internet

The text says: error The Halifax Gibbet was a wooden structure of two wooden uprights, capped by a horizontal beam, of a total height of convert. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

gibberose gibberosity gibbersome gibbeting gibbetlike gibbetting