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A gibbet is an old wooden frame used to hang a person with a rope around the neck. Though actually, history books often mean a slightly different picture: after the hanging, the body was left up on the gibbet by the road, so that everyone walking past would see it and feel afraid — a cruel public warning. It belongs to the past: history, old crime stories, and a few place names, not to life today. It sits close to gallows; some writers treat them as the same, others keep gibbet for the frame that displayed the body. As a verb, to gibbet someone is to hang them on that frame, or, more loosely, to hold them up for public shame.
絞刑架（從前把人吊死、或把屍體掛著示眾的木架）
組成From Middle English gibet, from Old French gibet (French still has gibet). Scholars are not sure of the next step: it may come from a Frankish word *gibb, a forked stick, or from Latin gibbus, “hunchbacked.”
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gibbetnoun/ˈd͡ʒɪbɪt/
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An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display.
- Near-synonym: gallows
- Thy Friends without the help of Prophecie, / Read Goals^([sic – meaning Gaols]) and Gibbets in thy Deſtiny; […]
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The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended.
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A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal.
gibbetverb/ˈd͡ʒɪbɪt/
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To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet.
- The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part, and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town. Where, then, lies the difference between the food of the nobleman and the porter, if both are at dinner on the same ox or calf, but in the seasoning, the dressing, the garnishing, and the setting forth?
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To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。