GIBBET


Meaning of GIBBET in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As he walks, he passes a gibbet where the corpses of three crows are hung to deter their fellows.

Before the coarse brown fabric hung an austere gibbet , constructed of two weathered wooden beams.

Every traveller was struck by the sight of gibbets and tortured bodies.

I took the collar off, removed the stones, put the rest in the sack and took it to the gibbet .

It was also the execution ground and the decomposing bodies of four criminals twirled from the makeshift gibbet .

Men advanced with beams of timber to the edge of the outermost ditch and there proceeded to erect a gibbet .

Ranulf lifted the lantern horn and his blood ran cold as he glimpsed a gibbet standing there.

The twin arms of that mechanical gibbet forced his hands down into the liquid, which sizzled and steamed.

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