(n.) A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.
(n.) The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
(v. t.) To hang and expose on a gibbet.
(v. t.) To expose to infamy; to blacken.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today, they pitch up outside Buxton Opera House, unpack an 8ft effigy of Big Ben and an even bigger gibbet, and – oh, yes – hang parliament.
(2) If I was King and he was my jester he'd be off to the gibbet."
(3) Why not neighborhood bowling leagues, usury and the gibbet?
(4) Charles Dickens, ever the reforming voyeur, wrote: "The horrors of the gibbet and of the crime which brought the wretched murderers to it faded in my mind before the atrocious bearing, looks, and language of the assembled spectators."
(5) The bodies of some of the accused were hung from gibbets in public, the most severe form of punishment under Saudi-administered sharia law and similar to crucifixion.
(6) Any corpses that were found guilty – after due consideration of the evidence – had to be drawn to a gibbet and hung there by the feet for 24 hours, before being hurled into the town cesspit.
(7) Instead they were tied to gibbets in the Humber estuary at low tide and left helplessly to watch the return of the tide that would eventually drown them.
Giblet
Definition:
(a.) Made of giblets; as, a giblet pie.
Example Sentences:
(1) Breed type influenced (P less than .10) all traits except giblet and forequarter cut percentages.
(2) One happy online user described the marinades thus: "Turns ordinary, boring, everyday chicken into a Festival of Chicken, complete with chicken-skin streamers and party giblets".
(3) By then something of a local hero, he was tried out on TV, where his first foray culminated with him roasting a guinea fowl complete with giblets in their plastic bag (a Julia Child moment).
(4) Carcass yield traits included preslaughter, abdominal fat, giblet, pelt, visceral and carcass weights and dressing percentage; lean yield traits consisted of uncooked lean percentages from forequarter, hindquarter and loin primal cuts, adjusted total lean weight and overall meat to bone ratio.
(5) Giblet weights (heart + liver + gizzard) were significantly different among diets, but giblet weight appeared to be unrelated to amaranth level.
(6) In March 1989, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service sampled raw chicken carcasses and giblets at a federally inspected slaughter establishment in Puerto Rico to determine the effects of adding chlorine to carcass and giblet chill water on bacterial contents of raw poultry products.
(7) Over four 8-hour workdays, 200 carcass rinse samples were collected at 3 sites in the establishment; 39 giblet rinse samples were collected at 1 site.
(8) In turkey giblets, 16% of gizzards, 4% of hearts, 30% of livers and 8% of spleens were positive for the organism.
(9) Seven-wk body weight, 8-wk weight, weight gain, water consumption, infected feather follicle score, prekill and carcass without giblets weight were all significantly (P less than .05) affected by environmental treatment in both trials.
(10) In addition avoparcin produced significant increases in plucked weight and the proportion of visceral fat together with and decreases in the proportions of edible giblets and waste offal.
(11) Salmonellae were found on 12% of the giblets and necks sampled.
(12) Inocula of naturally infected chicken giblets suggested that there was a difference between two comparable brands of tetrathionate, but this was not statistically significant.
(13) The baseline results indicated aerobe plate count of log10 3.72; Enterobacteriaceae count of log10 2.90; E coli count of log10 1.14; and salmonellae on 69% of the giblets and necks sampled.
(14) High incidence of C. jejuni was recorded among chicken giblets (23.5%), followed by duck giblets (19%), then turkey giblets (14.5%) and finally squab giblets (4%).
(15) Evaluation criteria included the following: preslaughter and carcass weights; pelt, visceral, giblet, abdominal fat, and dressing percentages; percentages of carcass in loin, forequarter, and hindquarter primal cuts; and weight of lean in loin and ratio of lean to bone weight in loin cut.
(16) Analyses of the giblet and neck rinse samples indicated that raw giblets and necks after chilling had average aerobe plate count of log10 3.49, Enterobacteriaceae count of log10 2.57, and E coli count of log10 1.06.
(17) Birds fed the diet with 50% amaranth had giblets of equal size to birds fed the control diet.
(18) In chicken giblets, C. jejuni was isolated from gizzards, hearts, livers and spleens with incidences of 28%, 10%, 40% and 16% respectively while 24%, 6%, 36% and 10% of duck gizzards, hearts, livers and spleens were positive for the organism, respectively.
(19) Results compared favorably with giblet and neck rinse sample results obtained during a baseline sampling study in November and December 1987.
(20) A total of 200 poultry giblets, 50 each of chickens, ducks, squab and turkeys, were examined for the presence of Campylobacter jejuni.