gibbet

Example Sentences

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“We are mapping execution sites and also places where bodies were gibbeted, so they are hung in gibbet cages as a warning against crime,” said Jeater.

From The Guardian

When she and Jojo pass a gibbet in the town square where five ostensible traitors have been hanged, Jojo asks her what they did, and she answers, “What they could.”

From The New Yorker

Crowds gathered to watch a particular wolf die as agonisingly as possible: drawn and quartered, and left to swing on the gibbet.

From The Guardian

Although the practice is fading, mole-catchers employ such gibbets to prove that the promised work is completed, and farmers use them to niggle their neighbours into clearing their own fields.

From The Guardian

A gibbet can be any instrument of public execution, including guillotine, executioner's block, impalement stake, hanging gallows, or related scaffold, but "gibbeting" is specifically using a gallows to display the body of an executed criminal.

From BBC