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 .... We found 35 dictionaries that define the word gibbet: General dictionaries General (30 matching dictionaries). gibbet: Merriam-Webster.com; gibbet, .... Gibbeting was done as a warning, and the thought was that the public shame of having a body on display would act to deter future criminals..
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It is a word of onomatopoeic origin, created from sounds that were intended to represent meaningless chatter. William Shakespeare apparently saw a .... gibbet, a primitive form of gallows. It was a custom at one time—though not part of the legal sentence—to hang the body of an executed criminal in chains.
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