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.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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Do not play jinks with the contents of that bureau, or Posterity will gibbet you and the name of 'Gouge' will one day be execrated throughout France.
From A Chair on the Boulevard by Leonard Merrick