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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a gibbet.

Etymologies

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gibbet +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Lombardy poplars, with their gibbetlike erectness, bordered the roads and intersected them with mathematical shadows; here and there rose a feathery elm or a maple of wide-branched beauty.

    Life at High Tide Henry Mills Alden 1877

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