"Gibbet" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
A gallows; the post on which malefactors are hanged, or on which their bodies are exposed. It differs from a common gallows, in that it consists of one perpendicular post, from the top of which pro-ceeds one arm, except it be a double gibbet, which is formed in the shape of the Roman capital T. Enc. Loud
The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is
suspended; the jib.
To hang and expose on a gibbet.
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.
To expose to infamy; to blacken.
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A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright …
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