gibbet
noun
a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
are gibbeting
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present progressiveof gibbet.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It walks abroad, it continues its ravages, whilst you are gibbeting the carcase, or demolishing the tomb.
From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke
It walks abroad, it continues its ravages, whilst you are gibbeting the carcass or demolishing the tomb.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
