gibbet
gibbet 英 ['dʒɪbɪt] 美 ['dʒɪbɪt]
vt. 绞死；吊死；使当众出丑 n. 绞刑架；绞死；支架
进行时:gibbeting 过去式:gibbeted 过去分词:gibbeted 第三人称单数:gibbets 名词复数:gibbets
- A gibbet is a structure that's used to execute criminals by hanging them. The execution of someone on a gibbet is an old-fashioned practice.
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- vt. 绞死；吊死；使当众出丑
- n. 绞刑架；绞死；支架
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1. That gibbet is always good to look at.
望着这个绞刑架总是有益的。
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2. He was probably put on a crude wooden gibbet and made to stand in a loose, foetal position.
他可能是被放在原木的绞刑架上，然后竖起来，成为松弛的、胎儿一般的姿势。
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3. During the night which followed the execution of la Esmeralda, the night men had detached her body from the gibbet, and had carried it, according to custom, to the cellar of Montfau?on.
把拉·爱斯梅拉达处死的当天晚上，刽子手的助手们就把她的尸体从绞刑架上解下来，按照当时的惯例，送到隼山的墓窖里去了。
- gibbet (n.) early 13c., "gallows," from Old French gibet "gallows; a bent stick, small stick with a cross" (13c.), diminutive of gibe "club; hoe," perhaps from Frankish *gibb "forked stick." "Originally synonymous with GALLOWS sb., but in later use signifying an upright post with projecting arm from which the bodies of criminals were hung in chains or irons after execution" [OED].
- gibbet (v.) "to kill by hanging," 1590s, from gibbet (n.). Also "to hang a dead body in a public place for the sake of infamous exposure;" hence, figuratively "expose to ridicule" (1640s). Related: Gibbeted; gibbeting.
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