gibbetnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdʒɪb.ɪt/us/ˈdʒɪb.ət/a wooden structure from which criminals were hanged, in the past, as a form of execution (= killing as a punishment)
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Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn sb to (do) sth
- condemned
- decapitate
- execute
- execution
- executioner
- gallows
- hangman
- hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
- noose
- scaffold
- stake
- stone
- string
- string sb up
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