gibbet
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French gibet (Modern French gibet), either from Frankish *gibb (“forked stick”) or from Latin gibbus (“hunchbacked”).[1]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
gibbet (plural gibbets)
- An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows.
- 1728, Thomas Otway, “The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Solider's Fortune”, in The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway[1], volume 2, page 37:
- 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.
- 1728, Thomas Otway, “The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Solider's Fortune”, in The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway[1], volume 2, page 37:
Synonyms [edit]
Translations [edit]
An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows
Verb [edit]
gibbet (third-person singular simple present gibbets, present participle gibbeting or gibbetting, simple past and past participle gibbeted or gibbetted)
- (transitive) To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet.
- (transitive) To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn.
Translations [edit]
to execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet
to expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn
References [edit]
- ^ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 520
