Noun:

ಗಲ್ಲು, ಅಪಹಾಸ್ಯ,

gibbets's Usage Examples:

the reactionary philosopher Thomas Carlyle: "Are there not treadmills, gibbets; even hospitals, poor-rates, New Poor-Law?" There are literary precursors.

They were also used as gibbets for the display of the corpse for a considerable period after such hangings.

mainland and therefore satisfied the beliefs of locals who did not want gibbets near their homes.

sense in his play Henry IV Part II where he says: Swifter than he that gibbets on the Brewers Bucket.

They adorned the towns with avenues of gibbets, the burnt villages with pyramids of heads and the roadsides with impaled.

and the parts impaled and displayed on gibbets as a warning.

Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, when Judge Jeffreys supposedly ran out of gibbets.

Richard Stokes translates the cantata title as "frivolous flibbertigibbets"; they compare to the fowl feeding on the seeds in "nervous, jerky.

The real Deacon William Brodie was indeed a cabinetmaker and fashioner of gibbets.

rectangular and from it emerge the crucifixion cross and two tau shaped gibbets, and at the base of these there is a "Vierge de Pitié" or pietà carved.

was a traditional place to hang criminals or display their corpses on gibbets.

Later, Sir Francis Drake reportedly found the gibbets when he tried and executed Thomas Doughty.

such as, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "Cocks-combs, Goose-gibbets, Ghizzards, Livers, and other Appurtenances of Fowls (1706)".

Synonyms:

gallows-tree, gallows, gallous, gallows tree,

Antonyms:

overexpose, underexpose, keep quiet, close, hide,