- gibbet⇄gibbet, noun, verb, -beted,-beting.
- gibbet⇄noun 1. an upright post with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were in former times hung after execution.
2. gallows. - gibbet⇄v.t. 1. to hang on a gibbet.
2. (Figurative.) to hold up to public scorn or ridicule.
Ex. Was he to be gibbeted in the press? (Anthony Trollope).
3. to put to death by hanging.