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.
have gibbeted
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present perfectof gibbet.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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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
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
