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Webster 1913 Edition
Gibbet
Gib′bet
,Noun.
[OE.
gibet
, F. gibet
, in OF. also club, fr. LL. gibetum
;; cf. OF. gibe
sort of sickle or hook, It. giubbetto
gibbet, and giubbetta
, dim. of giubba
mane, also, an under waistcoat, doublet, Prov. It. gibba
(cf. Jupon
); so that it perhaps originally signified a halter, a rope round the neck of malefactors; or it is, perhaps, derived fr. L. gibbus
hunched, humped, E. gibbous
; or cf. E. jib
a sail.] 1.
A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain as a warning.
2.
The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
Gib′bet
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gibbeted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Gibbeting
.] 1.
To hang and expose on a gibbet.
2.
To expose to infamy; to blacken.
I’ll
gibbet
up his name. Oldham.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gibbet
GIB'BET
,Noun.
1.
Any traverse beam.GIB'BET
,Verb.
T.
1.
To hang or expose on anything going travers, as the beam of a gibbet.Definition 2024
gibbet
gibbet
English
Noun
gibbet (plural gibbets)
- An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows.
- 1728, Otway, Thomas, “The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Solider's Fortune”, in The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway, volume 2, London, page 37:
- No, had every Commandment but a Gibbet belonging to it, I ſhould not have had four King's Evidences to-day ſwear impudently I was a Papiſt, when I was never at Maſs yet ſince I was born, nor indeed at any other Worſhip theſe twenty Years.
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- The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
Synonyms
Translations
upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows
Verb
gibbet (third-person singular simple present gibbets, present participle gibbeting or gibbetting, simple past and past participle gibbeted or gibbetted)
- (transitive) To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet.
- (transitive) To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn.
Translations
to execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet
to expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn
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References
- ↑ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 520