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gibbet

/jib-it/US // ˈdʒɪb ɪt //UK // (ˈdʒɪbɪt) //

绞刑架,绞刑台,绞刑柱,绞刑架上

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    gib·bet·ed, gib·bet·ing.

    • : to hang on a gibbet.
    • : to put to death by hanging on a gibbet.
    • : to hold up to public scorn.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inchoke
Forms: gibbeted, gibbeting

Examples

  • For years afterwards the place was known as Gibbet Hill, and, indeed, the country folk still speak of it by that name.

  • It was regarded with a loathing and abhorrence more intense than that in which the felons gibbet is held to-day.

  • From the gibbet that rose over the western branch of the road three corpses hung by the neck.

  • That massive pile of stones bore at its top four iron forks fastened at right angles, gibbet-shaped.

  • The latter stopped first before the iron gibbet that terminated in a carcan.