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Definition: Gibbet |
GibbetNoun1. Instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging. Verb1. Hang on a gibbet. 2. Expose to ridicule or public scorn. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gibbet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Gibbet (g soft). A foot-pad, who "piqued himself on being the best-behaved man on the road." (George Farquhar: Beaux' Stratagem.) To gibbet the bread (Lincolnshire). When bread turns out ropy and is supposed to be bewitched, the good dame runs a stick through it and hangs it in the cupboard. It is gibbeted in terrorem to other batches. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: GibbetSynonyms: gallous (n), gallows (n), gallowstree (n), pillory (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Reprimand, chastise, castigate, lash, blow up, trounce, trim, laver la tete, overhaul; give it one, give it one finely; gibbet. |
Accuse; impeach, denounce; hold up to reprobation, hold up to execration; expose, brand, gibbet, stigmatize; show up, pull up, take up; cry "shame" upon; be outspoken; raise a hue and cry against. | |
Punishment | Execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber. |
Scourge | Scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gibbet |
| English words defined with "gibbet": Gibbeted, Gibbeting ♦ hanging. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gibbet": Fighting Prelate ♦ Grève ♦ Halifax Law ♦ J. J. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Gibbet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.60% of the time. "Gibbet" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80.6% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.42% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.49% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 1.49% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 67 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gibbet | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gibbet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | var në shtyllë, trekëmbësh (tripod), shtyllë ku vareshin kriminelët pas ekzikutimi. (various references) | |
Arabic | مشنقة (gallows), شهر به, شنق (be executed, hang up, hanging, strangle, strangulation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обесване (halter, hanging), обесвам (be hanged, halter, scrag, string up, suspend, swing, turn off), опозорявам (attaint, bring on reproach, defame, degrade, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, stigmatize, tear down), бесилка (gallows, gallows tree, rope, tree), бесило (drop). (various references) | |
Czech | šibenice (gallows, gallows-trees). (various references) | |
Farsi | چوبه دار (Gallows, Tree), صلابه , رسواکردن (Decry, Dissociate, Scandalize), بداراویختن (Crucify, Hang, Scaffold, Truss). (various references) | |
French | gibet, potence, pendre, diffamer. (various references) | |
German | galgen (crossbeam, gallows, hangman). (various references) | |
Greek | κρεμάλα (gallows, noose, scaffold), αγχόνη (gallows), απαγχονίζω (hang, string up). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עץ תלי" (gallows, scaffold), 'ר"ום (gallows, scaffold). (various references) | |
Hungarian | akasztófa (derrick, gallows, gallows-tree, gallows-trees, scaffold, tree), akasztás (hanging), felakasztás (hanging, suspension). (various references) | |
Italian | patibolo (gallows, scaffold), forca (crotch, fork, gallows, pitchfork). (various references) | |
Manx | crogh (cross, crucifix, saffron), criy (scaffold). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ibbetgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | forca (coachbox, gallows, gallowstree), enforcar (gib arm, halter, hang), enforcamento (gallows, halter), condenar forca (gib arm), armação de madeira. (various references) | |
Romanian | spânzurãtoare (gallows, halter). (various references) | |
Russian | виселица (crap, gallows, gallows-trees). (various references) | |
Scottish | croich (gallows). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vešala (gallows, gallows-trees), obesiti (hang, hang up, sling, string, string up, suspend, tuck up). (various references) | |
Spanish | usar patíbulo, usar horca, patíbulo (gallows), horca (crotch, fork, gallows, pitchfork). (various references) | |
Swedish | galge (coat hanger, gallow, gallow tree, gallows, gallowtree, hanger). (various references) | |
Thai | ตะแลงแกรง. (various references) | |
Turkish | rezil etmek (attaint, ball up, bitch, bitch up, bring disgrace on smb., decry, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, foul up, guy, let down, pillory, put smb. to shame, ruin, stultify, wreck), kirli çamaşırlarını ortaya çıkarmak, idam sehpası (gallows, gallows tree), idam etmek (dispatch, execute, put to death), darağacı (gallows, gallows tree, scaffold, tree), asmak (bunk, drape, drape over, halter, hang, hang on, hang out, hang up, neglect, play hooky, post, post up, skip, skive off, sling, string up, suspend, swing, truss, wag). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | страчувати через повішення, шибениця (gallows, gallows tree, tree), косяк (cant, cantilever, cheek, shoal), вішати (halter, hang, suspend), повішення (gallows). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | giá treo cổ, giá phơi thây sự treo cổ. (various references) | |
Welsh | crocbren (gallows). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | patibulis, patibulo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gibbet": gibbeted, gibbeting, gibbets, gibbetted, gibbetting. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "gibbet": flibbertigibbet. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gibbet": flibbertigibbets, flibbertigibbety. (additional references) | |
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"Gibbet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gabakt, Gabbichi, gabot, gbe-tv, gebet, gibb, Gibbe, Gibbie, gibbit, gibblet, gibert, gibet, gibetz, gibey, Gobbitt, Gubbay, guibba, ibet, Sibbet, tibbet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-e-g-i-t" | |
-2 letters: bite, gibe. | |
-3 letters: beg, bet, bib, big, bit, ebb, get, gib, gie, git, teg, tie. | |
-4 letters: be, bi, et, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-e-g-i-t" | |
+1 letter: gibbets. | |
+2 letters: gabbiest, gibbeted, gibbsite, glibbest. | |
+3 letters: gibbeting, gibbetted, gibbsites, globbiest, grabbiest, grubbiest, rabbeting. | |
+4 letters: gibbetting. | |
+5 letters: bearbaiting, browbeating, gibbosities. | |
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