单词	gibbet
释义	gibbetgib‧bet /ˈdʒɪbɪt/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINgibbet Origin: 1100-1200 Old French gibet, from gibe ‘pole’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS As he walks, he passes a gibbet where the corpses of three crows are hung to deter their fellows. Before the coarse brown fabric hung an austere gibbet, constructed of two weathered wooden beams. Every traveller was struck by the sight of gibbets and tortured bodies. I took the collar off, removed the stones, put the rest in the sack and took it to the gibbet. It was also the execution ground and the decomposing bodies of four criminals twirled from the makeshift gibbet. Men advanced with beams of timber to the edge of the outermost ditch and there proceeded to erect a gibbet. Ranulf lifted the lantern horn and his blood ran cold as he glimpsed a gibbet standing there. The twin arms of that mechanical gibbet forced his hands down into the liquid, which sizzled and steamed. word sets WORD SETS► Crime & Law alarmed, adjectiveallegation, nounamnesty, nounbail, nounbreath test, nouncharge sheet, nouncircumstantial, adjectivecompensation, nouncompensatory, adjectivecomplicity, nouncondemned, adjectivecondemned cell, nounconfess, verbconfession, nounconman, nouncontraband, nouncuff, verbdebug, verbdetain, verbdick, nounenforce, verbfed, nounFederal Bureau of Investigation, nounflogging, nounforensic, adjectivegallows, noungaolbird, noungas chamber, noungibbet, nounguillotine, nounhang, verbhanging, nounhard labour, nounimpeach, verbKC, nounlaunder, verblawsuit, nounleg irons, nounlicensed, adjectivelicensing laws, nounlife, nounlife sentence, nounline-up, nounlynch, verblynch mob, nounpenalty point, nounpenology, nounpolygraph, nounposse, nounprisoner, nounracket, nounracketeer, nounracketeering, nounrake-off, nounransom, nounransom, verbreport, verbreprieve, nounriot, nounshop, verbsilk, nounspeed trap, nounstalker, nounstrip search, nountransport, verbtransportation, nountribunal, nounundercover, adjectivevictim, nounwrongdoing, noun a wooden frame on which criminals were hanged in the past with a rope around their neck SYN  gallows
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