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What (who) is Gibbet - definition
POST-MORTEM PUNISHMENT OF ENCASING A CRIMINALS BODY IN AN IRON CAGE (GIBBET CAGE) AND SUSPENDING IT FROM A TALL, OFTEN WOODEN, POST
Gibet; Gibbetting; Gibeting; Gibetting; Public displays of dead; Displaying corpses; Hung in chains; Hanging in chains; Hanged in chains; Gibbets; Jarrow Slake; Thomas Wilkinson (pirate); Gibbet Marsh; John Breads; Gibbet; Gibbeted
![1899 sketch of John Breads's Gibbet Iron, [[Rye, East Sussex]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Breads's Gibbet Iron, Rye.png?width=200 "1899 sketch of John Breads's Gibbet Iron, [[Rye, East Sussex]]")
![[[Combe Gibbet]], a replica gibbet in [[Berkshire]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Combe jibbet jan 7 2007 128.jpg?width=200 "[[Combe Gibbet]], a replica gibbet in [[Berkshire]]")
![Hanging cage at the main gate to [[Corciano]], [[Province of Perugia]], Italy](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Corciano-door-tower.jpg?width=200 "Hanging cage at the main gate to [[Corciano]], [[Province of Perugia]], Italy")
![dummy]] inside](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fomfr cage.jpg?width=200 "dummy]] inside")
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![Captain Kidd]], who was tried and executed for piracy, hanging in chains](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hanging of William Kidd.jpg?width=200 "Captain Kidd]], who was tried and executed for piracy, hanging in chains")
Gibbet
·vt To hang and expose on a gibbet.
II. Gibbet ·vt To expose to infamy; to Blacken.
III. Gibbet ·noun The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
IV. 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.
gibbet
I. n.
Gallows, hangman's tree.
II. v. a.
Hang on a gallows.
gibbet
(gibbets)
N-COUNT
Wikipedia
Gibbeting
A gibbet is any instrument of public execution (including guillotine, executioner's block, impalement stake, hanging gallows, or related scaffold). Gibbeting is the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hanged on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals. Occasionally, the gibbet was also used as a method of execution, with the criminal being left to die of exposure, thirst and/or starvation. The practice of placing a criminal on display within a gibbet is also called "hanging in chains".
Examples of use of Gibbet
1. The editor of the Sun is looking for a gibbet, and of the Mail for a rope.
2. "He was probably put on a crude wooden gibbet and made to stand in a loose, foetal position.
3. His body was suspended in a gibbet, a kind of cage, on the Thames River as a warning to other privateers.
4. A computerised flying gibbet, to swing Jerry over the fires of hell, would have cost more than our manual one, but might have saved expensive man–hours.
5. This week we have seen the kind of exemplary performance from a judge which we thought had gone out with the gibbet.