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Definition of Gibbet
1. Verb. Hang on an execution instrument.
2. Noun. Alternative terms for gallows.
3. Verb. Expose to ridicule or public scorn.
Definition of Gibbet
1. n. 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. v. t. To hang and expose on a gibbet.
Definition of Gibbet
1. Noun. An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gibbet
1. to execute by hanging [v -BETED, -BETING, -BETS or -BETTED, -BETTING, -BETS]
Medical Definition of Gibbet
1. 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 asa warning. 2. The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibbet
Literary usage of Gibbet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1900)
"If it were an Horse or Ox, or any other Creature that was stol'n, it was brought
along to the gibbet, and fastened to the Cord by a Pin that stayed the ..."
2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"AT Edmonton, in England, on Wednesday last, a gibbet was erected, under which a
... gibbet hung a figure, with a mask for a face, and on its breast a label, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841)
"a commanding voice in his ear, as he Mr O'gibbet sitting side by side—as felt
himself caught hold of by some one sitting at the corner of the Trea- sary ..."
4. Gaslight and Daylight: With Some London Scenes They Shine Upon by George Augustus Sala (1859)
"Holy- well Street is for the old clothes vendors, Chancery Lane for the lawyers,
Fifth Avenue for the upper Ten Thousand, and gibbet STREET is for the ..."
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