Found 2 items, similar to gibbet.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: gibbet gibbet n : instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging [syn: gallows, gallows tree, gallows-tree, gallous] v 1: hang on an execution instrument 2: expose to ridicule or public scorn [syn: pillory]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Gibbet Gibbet \Gib"bet\, n. [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.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib. [1913 Webster] Gibbet \Gib"bet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gibbeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gibbeting.] [1913 Webster] 1. To hang and expose on a gibbet. [1913 Webster] 2. To expose to infamy; to blacken. [1913 Webster] I'll gibbet up his name. --Oldham. [1913 Webster]