Examples of 'gibbet' in a sentence
Meaning of "gibbet"
The noun 'gibbet' refers to a gallows-like structure used for displaying the bodies of executed criminals, typically in a public place as a warning to others
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- An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display.
- The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
- A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal.
- To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet.
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Rack and the gibbet for you.
Every usurer is a thief worthy of the gibbet.
We will come to the gibbet soon enough.
He was on the point of falling under the gibbet.
I am suggesting the gibbet could be seen by some to be inflammatory.
There he was hanged from a gibbet until dead.
The gibbet was used in many countries.
I am really afraid of dying on the gibbet.
That gibbet is always good to look at.
Might be me up on that gibbet instead of you.
String his corpse up on the gibbet.
The gibbet like support members are attached to the table.
We spared her from the gibbet.
Perhaps removing the gibbet would go a long way towards settling.
I wanted to put this man on a gibbet.
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The gibbet on which crucifixion was carried out could be of many shapes.
Their names nailed to the gibbet.
The gibbet was a foot in diameter with strong bars of iron up each side.
You are standing a few steps away from a gibbet.
The cage could also be used as a gibbet for executed criminals.
We will mass our troops around the gibbet.
The presence of this gibbet sufficed to render gloomy all the surrounding places.
The ladder was set up against the permanent gibbet.
Thus pirates are sent to the gibbet by the first into whose hands they fall.
A human shaped cage was known as a gibbet.
Perhaps removing the gibbet would go a long way towards settling whatever unrest may be brewing.
This man stopped at the foot of the gibbet.
His work on the gibbet of the Cross.
Lace clamoring for him to dance from a gibbet.
He built a gibbet on which to hang Mordecai.
But plenty of others would follow him to the gibbet.
The Halifax gibbet was an early guillotine.
But ee will grin the same as me when we are gibbet meat.
Gibbet has already got Sullen tipsy with drink by way of preparation.
The priory lands also included the town gibbet.
And we will dangle you from the gibbet in your Sunday best.
The which is that it be hanged and strangled upon a gibbet.
Commentary included with the photograph indicates that the gibbet was a practice still in active use.
I have seen men caper more lively on the end of a gibbet.
Their bodies were left on a gibbet for several days before being thrown into the Guadalquivir.
Perhaps removing the gibbet.
The Halifax Gibbet was the forerunner of the guillotine.
Suffered death on the gibbet.
Gibbet Island is an island of Bermuda.
Cornelius recognised the gibbet.
On the gibbet prepared by Haman for Mordecai Haman was himself hanged.
Here the body was placed into an iron gibbet cage.
Gibbet of Montfaucon.
It seemed to be hanging from a gibbet.
Max Tomlinson of Caxton Gibbet shot the footage in the fields surrounding Cambourne.
