Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for GIB'BET
GIB'BET, n. [Fr. gibet; Arm. gibel.]
- 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.
- Any traverse beam. Johnson.
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