gibbet

[US]/'dʒɪbɪt/
[UK]/'dʒɪbɪt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. hang by the neck; expose to ridicule
n. a gallows; a frame for hanging.

Example Sentences

The criminal was hung on the gibbet as a warning to others.

The gibbet stood ominously in the town square.

The gibbet was used for public executions in medieval times.

The condemned man was placed in the gibbet to face his fate.

The gibbet was a gruesome sight, sending shivers down the spines of onlookers.

The gibbet was a symbol of justice and punishment in ancient times.

The gibbet was a common sight in the town square during the reign of the tyrant.

The gibbet was used to display the bodies of executed criminals as a warning to others.

The gibbet creaked in the wind, adding an eerie atmosphere to the deserted place.

The gibbet was a grim reminder of the consequences of breaking the law.

Real-world Examples

" Let them share a gibbet, " said Symon Stripeback. " They unleashed two dragons on the city" .

Source: A Dance with Dragons: The Song of Ice and Fire (Bilingual Chinese-English)

Outside the inn on a weathered gibbet, a woman's bones were twisting and rattling at every gust of wind.

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Ice and Rain (Bilingual)

They brought it in burglary, and that's why he was hanged and gibbeted on Brown House Hill.

Source: Jude the Obscure (Part Two)

" If you wouldn't be sent to gibbet, get down to this! "

Source: Pan Pan

" I know where the gibbet is said to have stood, very well, " murmured Jude.

Source: Jude the Obscure (Part Two)

He passed the spot where the gibbet of his ancestor and Sue's had stood, and descended the hill.

Source: Jude the Obscure (Part Two)

The smuggling of salt and tobacco sends every year several hundred people to the galleys, besides a very considerable number whom it sends to the gibbet.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Five)

The wheel, the gibbet, the strappado, kept good guard around the place of refuge, and lay in watch incessantly for their prey, like sharks around a vessel.

Source: Marriage and Love

Under the low red glare of sunset, the beacon, and the gibbet, and the mound of the Battery, and the opposite shore of the river, were plain, though all of a watery lead color.

Source: Great Expectations (Original Version)

Dom Nicolas winked both his big eyes, and seemed to choke upon his Adam's apple. Montfaucon, the great grisly Paris gibbet, stood hard by the St. Denis Road, and the pleasantry touched him on the raw.

Source: The New Arabian Nights (Part Two)

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