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.
gibbeting
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present participleof gibbet.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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The treasurer's accounts for Derbyshire, for 1815-16, show, says Dr. Cox, that the punishment of gibbeting involved a serious inroad on the county finances.
From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews
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
With bubbling yells it came, trampling the undergrowth, drumming on its huge breast, gibbeting with demoniac rage and pain--came swiftly, like the terrific things that people nightmares.
From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England
Next we come to the gibbeting of a Threlkeld man, one of the earliest recorded instances of that punishment being imposed in the County Palatine.
From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Daniel Scott
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
