(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.
Gobbet
Definition:
(n.) A mouthful; a lump; a small piece.
(v. t.) To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
Example Sentences:
(1) September 6, 2013 8.19am BST One more gobbet of economic news -- UK house prices are rising at their fastest rate since 2010.
(2) Keystone laboratories came up with McNuggets, little gobbets of minced, reconstituted chicken, battered and breaded.
(3) The British National party chairman, Nick Griffin, seemed to agree, elegantly tweeting that the speech was "patently insecure bullshit"– as well as illustrating the elevated heights to which social media have taken political debate, when one or two impulsive lefties re-tweeted another of his gobbets, about the Labour leader acting as a "recruiting sergeant" for the BNP.
(4) In reply, he spat a gobbet of sickly racism inspired by the African spirit of the show.
(5) Updated at 2.49pm BST 2.38pm BST ECB buys no bonds, looks to OMT A small gobbet of news from the European Central Bank – it bought precisely zero government bonds last week via its SMP scheme.
(6) To conclude the tour she curls up on a sofa, tosses gobbets of popcorn into her mouth and relaxes with a film from Trump’s on-board cinémathèque of a thousand movies.
(7) Ultimately, if you're going to pebbledash your drama with walloping great gobbets of cartoon gore, it's probably best to make sure that it is, at the very least, scary.