Definition of Gibbet

  • (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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