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- verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of
gibbet .
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Examples
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His vengeance did not cease with the death: he ordered the head to be gibbetted at one end and the trunk at the other abutment of the Tigris bridge where the corpses of the vilest malefactors used to be exposed; and, some months afterwards, he insulted the remains by having them burned — the last and worst indignity which can be offered to a Moslem.
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Typically, the resulting five parts (i.e., the four quarters of the body and the head) were parboiled to prevent them rotting too quickly, then gibbetted (put on public display) in different parts of the city or town to deter would-be traitors.
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Between times most nations are gibbetted in this slashing epistle.
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Crawford gives an account of a man being gibbetted alive in South Carolina, and the buzzards came and picked out his eyes.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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Why were the martyrs stretched upon the rack, gibbetted and burnt, the scorn and diversion of a Nero, whilst their tarred and burning bodies sent up a light which illuminated the Roman capital?
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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Crawford gives an account of a man being gibbetted alive in South Carolina, and the buzzards came and picked out his eyes.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Why were the martyrs stretched upon the rack, gibbetted and burnt, the scorn and diversion of a Nero, whilst their tarred and burning bodies sent up a light which illuminated the Roman capital?
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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People were rude to you: they said, "Be gibbetted!"
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914 Various
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Why were the martyrs stretched upon the rack, gibbetted and burnt, the scorn and diversion of a Nero, whilst their tarred and burning bodies sent up a light which illuminated the Roman capital?
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Why were the martyrs stretched upon the rack, gibbetted and burnt, the scorn and diversion of a Nero, whilst their tarred and burning bodies sent up a light which illuminated the Roman capital?
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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