meaning of gibbet
1. 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.
2. The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
3. To hang and expose on a gibbet.
4. To expose to infamy; to blacken.
5. instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging
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