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gib·bet

(jĭb′ĭt)

1. A device used for hanging a person until dead; a gallows.

2. An upright post with a crosspiece, forming a T-shaped structure from which executed criminals were formerly hung for public viewing.

tr.v. gib·bet·ed, gib·bet·ing, gib·bets or gib·bet·ted or gib·bet·ting

1. To execute by hanging on a gibbet.

a. To hang on a gibbet for public viewing.

b. To expose to infamy or public ridicule.

[Middle English gibet, from Old French, diminutive of gibe, staff, probably from Frankish *gibb, forked stick.]

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gibbet

(ˈdʒɪbɪt)

(Law)

a. a wooden structure resembling a gallows, from which the bodies of executed criminals were formerly hung to public view

b. a gallows

vb (tr)

1. (Law) to put to death by hanging on a gibbet

2. to hang (a corpse) on a gibbet

3. to expose to public ridicule

[C13: from Old French gibet gallows, literally: little cudgel, from gibe cudgel; of uncertain origin]

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gib•bet

(ˈdʒɪb ɪt)

n.

1. a post with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of executed criminals were formerly hung in chains for public display.

2. a gallows.

v.t.

3. to hang on a gibbet.

4. to put to death by hanging on a gibbet.

5. to hold up to public scorn.

[1175–1225; < Old French gibet (earlier, staff or cudgel), diminutive of gibe staff, club]

gibbet

Past participle: gibbeted
Gerund: gibbeting

Imperative
gibbet
gibbet

Present
I gibbet
you gibbet
he/she/it gibbets
we gibbet
you gibbet
they gibbet

Preterite
I gibbeted
you gibbeted
he/she/it gibbeted
we gibbeted
you gibbeted
they gibbeted

Present Continuous
I am gibbeting
you are gibbeting
he/she/it is gibbeting
we are gibbeting
you are gibbeting
they are gibbeting

Present Perfect
I have gibbeted
you have gibbeted
he/she/it has gibbeted
we have gibbeted
you have gibbeted
they have gibbeted

Past Continuous
I was gibbeting
you were gibbeting
he/she/it was gibbeting
we were gibbeting
you were gibbeting
they were gibbeting

Past Perfect
I had gibbeted
you had gibbeted
he/she/it had gibbeted
we had gibbeted
you had gibbeted
they had gibbeted

Future
I will gibbet
you will gibbet
he/she/it will gibbet
we will gibbet
you will gibbet
they will gibbet

Future Perfect
I will have gibbeted
you will have gibbeted
he/she/it will have gibbeted
we will have gibbeted
you will have gibbeted
they will have gibbeted

Future Continuous
I will be gibbeting
you will be gibbeting
he/she/it will be gibbeting
we will be gibbeting
you will be gibbeting
they will be gibbeting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been gibbeting
you have been gibbeting
he/she/it has been gibbeting
we have been gibbeting
you have been gibbeting
they have been gibbeting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been gibbeting
you will have been gibbeting
he/she/it will have been gibbeting
we will have been gibbeting
you will have been gibbeting
they will have been gibbeting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been gibbeting
you had been gibbeting
he/she/it had been gibbeting
we had been gibbeting
you had been gibbeting
they had been gibbeting

Conditional
I would gibbet
you would gibbet
he/she/it would gibbet
we would gibbet
you would gibbet
they would gibbet

Past Conditional
I would have gibbeted
you would have gibbeted
he/she/it would have gibbeted
we would have gibbeted
you would have gibbeted
they would have gibbeted

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Noun	1.	gibbet - alternative terms for gallows gallous, gallows tree, gallows-tree gallows - an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging
Verb	1.	gibbet - hang on an execution instrument string up, hang - kill by hanging; "The murderer was hanged on Friday"
	2.	gibbet - expose to ridicule or public scorn pillory display, exhibit, expose - to show, make visible or apparent; "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?"; "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship"

gibbet

verb

To execute by suspending by the neck:

hang.

Informal: string up.

Slang: swing.

Translations

مِشْنَقَه

šibenice

galge

gálgi

karātavas

gibbet

[ˈdʒɪbɪt] N → horca f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

gibbet

n → Galgen m

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gibbet

[ˈdʒɪbɪt] n → patibolo

gibbet

(ˈdʒibit) noun

a gallows in the shape C on which criminals used to be executed or hung up after execution.

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`escapes from your lips, or the lips of your companions, I have, in my government of Scotland and Ireland, seven hundred and forty-one wooden gibbets, of strong oak, clamped with iron, and freshly greased every week.

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It must be admitted that a permanent gibbet and a pillory, "a justice and a ladder," as they were called in that day, erected side by side in the centre of the pavement, contributed not a little to cause eyes to be turned away from that fatal place, where so many beings full of life and health have agonized; where, fifty years later, that fever of Saint Vallier was destined to have its birth, that terror of the scaffold, the most monstrous of all maladies because it comes not from God, but from man.

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hush!" cried La Ramee, "give me your gibbet, my lord.

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Another showed to him his bloody hands; for this fellow had ripped open Cornelius and disembowelled him, and was now hastening to the spot in order not to lose the opportunity of serving the Grand Pensionary in the same manner, whilst they were dragging the dead body of Cornelius to the gibbet.