Gibbet

Definitions

1. An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display.
2. The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended.
3. A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal.

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Examples

“Near-synonym: gallows”

“Thy Friends without the help⟳ of Prophecie, / Read⟳ Goals^([sic – meaning Gaols]) and Gibbets in thy Deſtiny; […]”

“No, had every Commandment but a Gibbet belonging to it, I ſhould not have⟳ had four King's Evidences to-day ſwear impudently I was a Papiſt, when I was never at Maſs yet ſince I was born, nor indeed at any other Worſhip theſe twenty Years.”

“Why, your cavalier is a rebel—an exile, whose property is confiscated, and for whose neck the gibbet stands prepared!”

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