Dictionary Entry
gibbet
gibbet is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.
- 2noun
The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
- 3transitive verb
To hang and expose on a gibbet.
- 4transitive verb
To expose to infamy; to blacken.
- 5noun
alternative terms for gallows
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- 6verb
expose to ridicule or public scorn
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- 7verb
hang on an execution instrument
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