英语词汇“gibbet”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	gibbet
释义	gib·bet I. \ˈjibə̇t, usu -ə̇d.+V\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English gibet gallows, from Old French, forked stick, gallows 1. or gibbet tree a. : an upright post with a projecting arm for hanging the bodies of executed criminals in chains or irons b. : gallows 2. : the projecting arm of a crane : jib II. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) 1. a. : to hang on a gibbet as a warning or for exposure to public scorn < soon should I … be mangled on a wheel, then gibbeted to blacken for the vultures — Samuel Rogers > b. : to expose to infamy or public scorn < libel suits were successfully brought by men … who had been incidentally gibbeted — Times Literary Supplement > 2. a. : to execute by hanging on a gibbet < gibbeted the Covenanters because they denied the rights of a civil sovereign to frame liturgies — J.S.Blackie > b. : to hang as if on a gibbet < half a dozen great cats hung gibbeted there and rows of stoats — David Garnett > III. noun (-s) Etymology: perhaps alteration of Middle French jupet distance to which one can shout, from juper to shout, of imitative origin obsolete : a hunting signal (as to a dog or hawk)
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