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.
gibbeted
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past participleof gibbet.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof gibbet.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
gibbetnouna gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
Example Sentences
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The pink-cheeked young patrolman, swinging back on his beat, tattooed with his ash night-stick on the gas-pipe frame and peered indifferently down at the battered and gibbeted crockery.
From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer
It is hardly possible that Giraldus should have gibbeted such a man under the sobriquet of Golias.
From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by John Addington Symonds
"Try to be like somebody," said the unlucky critic-bookseller to Lamartine; and he has been gibbeted for it, very justly, for the best part of a century.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
I'll see thee gibbeted ere I call thee coward: but I would give a thousand pounds I could run as fast as thou canst.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
Those who have gibbeted themselves on the walls have also thrown the newspapers that held their lunch into the water, and bottles with the paper—a most unhappy spectacle.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson
