Gibbet - What does it mean?
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An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1728
, chapter = The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Solider's Fortune
, title = The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway
, volume = 2
, first = Thomas
, last = Otway
, authorlink = Thomas Otway
, location = London
, page = 37
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=yF1AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA37
, passage = No, had every Commandment but a Gibbet belonging to it, I ?hould not have had four King's Evidences to-day ?wear impudently I was a Papi?t, when I was never at Ma?s yet ?ince I was born, nor indeed at any other Wor?hip the?e twenty Years.
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The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet.
To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn.