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- Dictionarygibbet/ˈdʒɪbɪt/
noun
- 1. a gallows.
verb
- 1. hang up (a body) on a gibbet.
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Post-mortem punishment of encasing a criminals body in an iron cage and suspending it from a tall, often wooden, post
Gibbeting is the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hanged on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals. Occasionally, the gibbet was also used as a method of public execution, with the criminal being left to die of exposure, thirst and/or starvation. The practice of placing a criminal on display within a gibbet is also called ... Wikipedia