Definizione monolingua

gibbet

gibbet (third-person singular simple present gibbets, present participle gibbeting or gibbetting, simple past and past participle gibbeted or gibbetted)

1. (transitive) to execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet
2. (transitive) to expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn

gibbet (plural gibbets)

1. an upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows
   • 1728, Otway, Thomas, “The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Soliders Fortune”, in The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway^[1], volume 2, page 37:

     No, had every Commandment but a Gibbet belonging to it, I ?hould not have had four Kings Evidences to-day ?wear impudently I was a Papi?t, when I was never at Ma?s yet ?ince I was born, nor indeed at any other Wor?hip the?e twenty Years.

Definizione dizionario gibbet

forca

patibolo

Altri significati:

(transitive) to expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn

(transitive) to execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet

an upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows