GIBBETn.
A gallows; a post or machine in form of a gallows, on which notorious malefactors are hanged in chains, and on which their bodies are suffered to remain, as spectacles in terrorem.
1. Any traverse beam.
GIBBETv.t.
To hang and expose on a gibbet or gallows.
1. To hang or expose on anything going travers, as the beam of a gibbet.