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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They gibbeted their own infamy in vainly seeking to dishonor the illustrious dead.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
"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
Impunity seems assured him, for what peasant would be mad enough to attack a master who could have him gibbeted at a word?
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
Sir Robert Constable was gibbeted above the Beverley-gate, Hull, in 1537, for high treason.
From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews
Huge as his figure must once have been, it now seemed, like his gibbeted plates, all battered and chipped and over-written with the marks of time.
From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer
