Definition for GIB'BET

GIB'BET, n. [Fr. gibet; Arm. gibel.]

  1. A gallows; a post or machine in form of a gallows, on which notorious malefactors are hanged in chains, and on which their bodies are suffered to remain, as spectacles in terrorem. Swift.
  2. Any traverse beam. Johnson.

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