Gibbet is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GIBBET in dictionary:

VERB:
• to execute by hanging
• hang up (a body) on a gibbet.
• execute (someone) by hanging.
• subject to ridicule and derision
• To hang and expose on a gibbet.
• To expose to infamy; to blacken.
• hang on an execution instrument
• expose to ridicule or public scorn
• put to death by hanging on a gibbet
NOUN:
• a gallows.
• an upright post with an arm on which the bodies of executed criminals were left hanging as a warning or deterrent to others.
• execution by hanging
• gallows for displaying executed criminals
• A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.
• The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
• alternative terms for gallows

Words related to GIBBET

gibbeted14 gibbeting15 gibbets12 gibbetted15 gibbetting16

Words that contain GIBBET

gibbets12 gibbeted14 gibbeting15 gibbetted15 gibbetting16 flibbertigibbet27 flibbertigibbets28 flibbertigibbety31

How to use GIBBET in a sentence

• Gesta Romanorum Ghent, White-friars Gibbet Gifts Gildo Gilles de Rome.
• Scylax, who was waiting for him, rode out of the gloom on the mare, leading the Cappadocian, and reined in near the gibbet, not quite sure yet who it was who strode toward him.
• All true work of a man, hang the author of it on what gibbet you like, must and will accomplish itself.
• At another time the curtain is drawn up and discovers a gibbet and Pulcinello standing on a ladder affixed to it with a rope round his neck.
• Francisque Michel, and who frequently ended his days on the rack or the gibbet.
• The view from this point, aptly named Gibbet Hill, is quite magnificent for Surrey.
• Anatomy he practised, according to the custom of those days, in the graveyard or beneath the gibbet.
• His mother could neither go into nor out of her cabin without seeing his body swinging from the gibbet.
• And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet, until the evening and the going down of the sun.
• So far as we know, none die on the gibbet but men of dishonourable and base life.
• There he sat as before, with the heavy fetters on his limbs, and beside him sat his three companions, who had since expiated their offences on the gibbet.
• In his absence Osio was condemned to death on the gibbet.
• A signal is given, and from every gibbet swings what lately was a man.
• Usually in Labrador when dogs are guilty of attacking people they are hung by the neck to a gibbet until dead, and left hanging for several days.
• In the meantime, negociations still continued concerning the young officer whom Washington had selected for the gibbet.
• One of these represented the law, another the gibbet in front of the gaol, and another was supposed to represent the Church militant.
• He sent off all his invalids to an Indian village at some distance, and exhorting his soldiers to stand by him, he erected a gibbet, and placed a guard on the road to Chempoalla.
• Then he placed the gibbet in the middle of the room, bursting with laughter.
• Kings are but kings, they will repay the most important services by smiles, and the least doubtful act with the gibbet.
• Under the gibbet, on the very spot over which hung the feet of the executed criminal, was a long and thick tuft, uncommon on such poor soil.
• There was no longer hill, nor gibbet, nor flights of crows.
• For two long furry ears sticking out of a game bag I saw the father of six children hanging on the gibbet.
• The groom of the gibbet seized one foot and then the other, and the heels fell back on the ground.
• The gibbet and the wheel did their work almost periodically, and people looked on while poor wretches writhed in slow agony all day long.
• The body of Ledemberg, Secretary of the States of Utrecht, who, as hath been said, put an end to his life in gaol, was affixed in the coffin to a gibbet.
• Before dark he saw a man hanging in a gibbet by the roadside.
• Now treason! disgrace! the gibbet! Arnold was sitting at breakfast.
• A gibbet once stood there not onconnected with our history.
• They erected on the instant a gibbet before the door of the wretched mother, and there her sons were hung.
• Fifteen officers of high rank were placed together beneath the gibbet, with ropes around their necks.
• A fire was still burning, provided with a large cauldron suspended on a sort of versatile gibbet, by which contrivance it could be withdrawn from the flame.
• If spurious will publicly gibbet you and probably burn your house down.
• Peter lies in prison, and not till the hammers of the carpenters putting up the gibbet for to-morrow are heard, does deliverance come.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. We do not cooperate with the owners of this trademark. All trademark rights are owned by their owners and are not relevant to the web site "scrabble-word.com". This site is intended for entertainment and training. We try to make a useful tool for all fans of SCRABBLE. "Scrabble Word" is the best method to improve your skills in the game.