Gibbet
['dʒɪbɪt]
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
(v. t.) To hang and expose on a gibbet.
(v. t.) To expose to infamy; to blacken.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Gallows.
v. a. Hang on a gallows.
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Definition
n. a gallows on which criminals were suspended after execution: the projecting beam of a crane.—v.t. to expose on a gibbet.
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Examples
- It is certain that he who robs another of his moral reputation, more richly merits a gibbet than if he had plundered him of his purse on the highway. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They stand largely unnoticed, and very much undefined--poor ghosts of the truth among the gibbets. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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