gibbets
- present tense form of gibbet (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Although the practice is fading, mole-catchers employ such gibbets to prove that the promised work is completed, and farmers use them to niggle their neighbours into clearing their own fields.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2017
In Victorian times, the heyday of butterfly collecting, gamekeepers would attract Purple Emperors down to their gibbets by hanging out rotting carcasses of crows and rabbits.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2015
The blasts have stripped many shop signs off their brackets, and the gibbets hang forsaken.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
"Port Light" at Wappin' Wharf 42 Patch: Wappin' wharf and gibbets is nothin' ter talk about.
From Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates by Flory, Julia McCune
Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius, secretly dissected human corpses, finding them hanging on public gibbets or competing with dogs for those incompletely buried in cemeteries.
From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by Reilly, S. A.
