Definitions for gibbet
ˈdʒɪb ɪtgib·bet

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gallows tree, gallows-tree, gibbet, gallousverb

   alternative terms for gallows

2. gibbetverb

   hang on an execution instrument

3. pillory, gibbetverb

   expose to ridicule or public scorn

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gibbetnoun

   an upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows

2. gibbetverb

   to execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet

3. gibbetverb

   to expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gibbetnoun

   Etymology: gibet, French.

   1. A gallows; the post on which malefactors are hanged, or on which their carcases are exposed.

   When was there ever cursed atheist brought
   Unto the gibbet, but he did adore
   That blessed pow’r which he had set at nought? Davies.

   You scandal to the stock of verse, a race
   Able to bring the gibbet in disgrace. John Cleveland.

   Haman suffered death himself upon the very gibbet that he had provided for another. Roger L'Estrange.

   Papers of universal approbation, lay such principles to the whole body of the Tories, as, if they were true, our next business should be to erect gibbets in every parish, and hang them out of the way. Jonathan Swift.

   2. Any traverse beams.

2. To Gibbetverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To hang or expose on a gibbet.

   I’ll gibbet up his name. John Oldham.

   2. To hang on any thing going traverse: as the beam of a gibbet.

   He shall come off and on swifter than he that gibbets on the brewer’s bucket. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gibbet

   A gibbet is any instrument of public execution (including guillotine, executioner's block, impalement stake, hanging gallows, or related scaffold). Gibbeting is the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hanged on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals. Occasionally, the gibbet was also used as a method of execution, with the criminal being left to die of exposure, thirst and/or starvation. The practice of placing a criminal on display within a gibbet is also called "hanging in chains".

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gibbet

   A gibbet is a wooden frame or gallows from which the bodies of executed criminals were hung and displayed in public as a warning to others. It can also refer to the act of execution or hanging itself.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gibbetnoun

   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. Gibbetnoun

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

3. Gibbetverb

   to hang and expose on a gibbet

4. Gibbetverb

   to expose to infamy; to blacken

5. Etymology: [OE. gibet, F. gibet, in OF. also club, fr. LL. gibetum;; cf. OF. gibe sort of sickle or hook, It. giubbetto gibbet, and giubbetta, dim. of giubba mane, also, an under waistcoat, doublet, Prov. It. gibba (cf. Jupon); so that it perhaps originally signified a halter, a rope round the neck of malefactors; or it is, perhaps, derived fr. L. gibbus hunched, humped, E. gibbous; or cf. E. jib a sail.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gibbet

   jib′et, n. a gallows on which criminals were suspended after execution: the projecting beam of a crane.—v.t. to expose on a gibbet. [O. Fr. gibet, a stick; origin unknown.]

Matched Categories

1. • Expose
   • Hang

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How to pronounce gibbet?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say gibbet in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gibbet in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gibbet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of gibbet in a Sentence

1. George Bernard Shaw:

   Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=gibbet
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gibbet
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=gibbet
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbet
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gibbet
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=gibbet
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gibbet