Word Meaning

Meaning of "gibbet" and the crossword clue

- Gallows
- 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.
- The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
- To hang and expose on a gibbet.
- To expose to infamy; to blacken.