Gibbet Synonyms

jĭbĭt
Alternative terms for gallows
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. yardarm
  2. scaffold
  3. gallows-tree
  4. lynching tree
  5. gallous
Expose to ridicule or public scorn
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pillory
To execute by suspending by the neck
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. hang
  2. string up
  3. swing

Words Related to Gibbet

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. gallows
  2. help
  3. branxton
  4. tyburn

Gibbet Sentence Examples

  • The executioners were ceaselessly at work with stake, sword and gibbet.

  • In 1765, it became "Gibbet Island," named after the tool used to hang pirates and convicts from trees on the island.

  • The Sarbadarids (so called from their motto Sar-ba-dar, Head to the Gibbet), descendants of Abd al-Razzak, who rebelled in Khorasan about 1337, enjoyed some measure of independence under twelve rulers till they also were destroyed by Timur (c. 1380).

  • One after another closed his obscure adventures in mid-air, triced up to the arm of the royal gibbet or the Baron 's dule-tree.

  • Among the curious customs of Halifax was the Gibbet Law, which was probably established by a prescriptive right to protect the wool trade, and gave the inhabitants the power of executing any one taken within their liberty, who, when tried by a jury of sixteen of the frith-burgesses, was found guilty of the theft of any goods of the value of more than 13d.

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