Gibbet [noun]
Definition of Gibbet:
place for hanging
Opposite/Antonyms of Gibbet:
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Sentence/Example of Gibbet:
For years afterwards the place was known as Gibbet Hill, and, indeed, the country folk still speak of it by that name.
It was regarded with a loathing and abhorrence more intense than that in which the felons gibbet is held to-day.
From the gibbet that rose over the western branch of the road three corpses hung by the neck.
That massive pile of stones bore at its top four iron forks fastened at right angles, gibbet-shaped.
The latter stopped first before the iron gibbet that terminated in a carcan.
A heavy stone, weighing about two tons, and furnished with a ring and a strap to hang it by, lay at the foot of the gibbet.
The gibbet once stood on this heath, and in former times it seems to have been the place where executions usually took place.
Two hundred guineas was collected for him, and the mob hung a jack-boot and a "Scotch bonnet" on a gibbet and then burnt them.
You may as well expect courtesy from a literal wild boar, you may as well try to lay leaf gold on old rusty gibbet irons.
They hung Mr. Hood to the gibbet and set fire to a tar barrel under him, and so left him.