GIBBET

vt to hang and expose on a gibbet.

2. gibbet ·vt to expose to infamy; to blacken.

3. gibbet ·noun the projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.

4. gibbet ·noun 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.