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  • noun Plural form of gibbet.

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Examples

  • Paul Wills's design creates first a bland mushroom-coloured hotel room and then a shattered building open to the sky (there are no heavens here) whose thick beams and rafters look like gibbets and like crucifixes.

    Men Should Weep; Blasted; When We Are Married Susannah Clapp 2010

  • But some of the best of them had planned just that in July 1944 and had been strung up on gibbets for their pains.

    Fearsome Days Giles MacDonogh 2011

  • It is hard to imagine there would be an opportunity for cutting off the hand while the body is still in the gallows (since gibbets are no longer used, this would be your only option).

    Archive 2009-06-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • It is hard to imagine there would be an opportunity for cutting off the hand while the body is still in the gallows (since gibbets are no longer used, this would be your only option).

    A Bit of Soap Heather McDougal 2009

  • Where the grim gray rotting gibbets stand as Magellan reared them on the strand,

    Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • The crowd set up a hooting as the poisoner was led towards the platform, where the gibbets were erected at a good elevation to facilitate viewing.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Tim Stretton 2010

  • The crowd set up a hooting as the poisoner was led towards the platform, where the gibbets were erected at a good elevation to facilitate viewing.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010

  • She finds three forked-shaped gibbets thrown together, which the debris had covered; which the enemy had hidden. . .

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • Pisanello observes the twisted heads and dangling limbs of the executed on their gibbets, with the same accuracy he brings to his more beautiful studies.

    Pisanello at the British Museum: a gory delight 2010

  • After the Continental Army narrowly averted total collapse in 1776, gloating loyalists — noting that the three sevens in 1777 looked like gibbets — began calling it the year of the hangman.

    Against Rebellion Thomas Fleming 2010

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