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Gibbet
(n.) 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.
(n.) The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
(v. t.) To hang and expose on a gibbet.
(v. t.) To expose to infamy; to blacken.
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