Gibbet Definition

jĭbĭt
gibbets
noun
gibbets
A device used for hanging a person until dead; a gallows.
American Heritage
A gallows.
Webster's New World
A structure like a gallows, from which bodies of criminals already executed were hung and exposed to public scorn.
Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
gibbets
To execute by hanging.
Webster's New World
To hang on a gibbet.
Webster's New World
To expose to public scorn.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Gibbet

Noun

Singular:
gibbet
Plural:
gibbets

Origin of Gibbet

  • From Old French gibet (Modern French gibet), either from Frankish *gibb (“forked stick”) or from Latin gibbus (“hunchbacked”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English gibet from Old French diminutive of gibe staff probably from Frankish gibb forked stick

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Gibbet Sentence Examples

  • The executioners were ceaselessly at work with stake, sword and gibbet.

  • In 1765, it became "Gibbet Island," named after the tool used to hang pirates and convicts from trees on the island.

  • The Sarbadarids (so called from their motto Sar-ba-dar, Head to the Gibbet), descendants of Abd al-Razzak, who rebelled in Khorasan about 1337, enjoyed some measure of independence under twelve rulers till they also were destroyed by Timur (c. 1380).

  • One after another closed his obscure adventures in mid-air, triced up to the arm of the royal gibbet or the Baron 's dule-tree.

  • Among the curious customs of Halifax was the Gibbet Law, which was probably established by a prescriptive right to protect the wool trade, and gave the inhabitants the power of executing any one taken within their liberty, who, when tried by a jury of sixteen of the frith-burgesses, was found guilty of the theft of any goods of the value of more than 13d.

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