I. ˈjibə̇t, usu -ə̇d.+V noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English gibet gallows, from Old French, forked stick, gallows
1. or gibbet tree
a. : an upright post with a projecting arm for hanging the bodies of executed criminals in chains or irons
b. : gallows
2. : the projecting arm of a crane : jib
II. transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
1.
a. : to hang on a gibbet as a warning or for exposure to public scorn
soon should I … be mangled on a wheel, then gibbeted to blacken for the vultures — Samuel Rogers
b. : to expose to infamy or public scorn
libel suits were successfully brought by men … who had been incidentally gibbeted — Times Literary Supplement
2.
a. : to execute by hanging on a gibbet
gibbeted the Covenanters because they denied the rights of a civil sovereign to frame liturgies — J.S.Blackie
b. : to hang as if on a gibbet
half a dozen great cats hung gibbeted there and rows of stoats — David Garnett
III. noun
( -s )
Etymology: perhaps alteration of Middle French jupet distance to which one can shout, from juper to shout, of imitative origin
obsolete : a hunting signal (as to a dog or hawk)