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Gibbet

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.

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Display 76% connected

To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.

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Exhibit 76% connected

To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to disp…

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Expose 76% connected

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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Gallows 76% connected

of Gallows

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Hang 76% connected

To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sig…

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Pillory 92% connected

A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in f…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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