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gibbet

/ˈdʒɪbɪt/noun

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  1. 1

    [C] old-fashioned

    a wooden structure on which criminals were hanged in the past, or on which their dead bodies were hung for people to see

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    • In the old days the bodies of highwaymen were left hanging on a gibbet.

    Synonyms gallows scaffold