gibbet's Usage Examples:

It was a favourite resort of highwaymen, whose bodies were exposed on gibbets along the road.

The executioners were ceaselessly at work with stake, sword and gibbet.

One after another closed his obscure adventures in mid-air, triced up to the arm of the royal gibbet or the Baron 's dule-tree.

triced up to the arm of the royal gibbet or the Baron's dule-tree.

The executions took place on market days on a hill outside the town, the gibbet somewhat resembling a guillotine.

gibbet erected under the Town Hall clock.

On the 18th of February 1527 two bishops, the first martyrs of Catholicism in Sweden, were gibbeted at Stockholm after a trial which was a parody of justice.

A wife who for her lover's sake procured her husband's death was gibbeted.

Synonyms:

gallows-tree, gallows, gallous, gallows tree,

Antonyms:

overexpose, underexpose, keep quiet, close, hide,