Gibbet

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1. Noun

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.

2. Noun

The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.

3. Verb

To hang and expose on a gibbet.

4. Verb

To expose to infamy; to blacken.
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