gibbet.

1. A gallows or structure used to hang a person or display an executed body.

2. To hold someone or something up to conspicuous ridicule or condemnation.

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Words that belong together

• iron gibbet
• body on a gibbet

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An iron gibbet creaked above the empty road.

The body on the gibbet turned whenever the wind crossed the marsh.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular gibbet; plural gibbets. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: gibbets.