gibbet 的 2 个定义
- 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.
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.
gibbet 近义词
等同于 gallows
等同于 choke
等同于 hang
更多gibbet例句
- 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.