is gibbeting

• present progressive

  present progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.

  of gibbet (3rd person singular).
  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.

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