Gibbet

//ˈd͡ʒɪbɪt//

Synonyms for "gibbet" (56 found)

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Noun(1 words)
jib
Verb(1 words)
pillory

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Translations

31 translations across 19 languages.

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Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • dar ağacı noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • бесилка noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)
  • обесвам verb (to execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet)
  • опозорявам verb (to expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn)

Catalan

1 entries
  • forca noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 绞刑架 noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

Dutch

1 entries
  • galg noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

Finnish

1 entries
  • hirttopuu noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

French

2 entries
  • gibet noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)
  • potence noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

Georgian

4 entries
  • სახრჩობელა noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)
  • სასაცილოდ გახდომა verb (to expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn)
  • ჩამოკიდება verb (to execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet)
  • ჩამოხრჩება verb (to execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet)

German

1 entries
  • Galgen noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

Irish

1 entries
  • croch noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

Italian

1 entries
  • forca noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

Manx

2 entries
  • criy noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)
  • crogh noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

Polish

2 entries
  • szafot noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)
  • szubienica noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • forca noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

Russian

3 entries
  • ви́селица noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)
  • ве́шать verb (to execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet)
  • пове́сить verb (to execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet)

Spanish

3 entries
  • cadalso noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)
  • horca noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)
  • patíbulo noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

Swedish

1 entries
  • stegla verb (to execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet)

Turkish

1 entries
  • darağacı noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

Welsh

1 entries
  • crocbren noun (upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows)

Sample sentences

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The third day after this was the birthday of Pharaoh: and he made a great feast for his servants, and at the banquet remembered the chief butler, and the chief baker. And he restored the one to his place, to present him the cup. The other he hanged on a gibbet, that the truth of the interpreter might be shewn.

Source: tatoeba (7880336)

There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same captain of the soldiers: to whom we told our dreams, and we heard what afterwards the event of the thing proved to be so. For I was restored to my office: and he was hanged upon a gibbet.

Source: tatoeba (7881662)

Near-synonym: gallows

Source: wiktionary

Thy Friends without the help of Prophecie, / Read Goals^([sic – meaning Gaols]) and Gibbets in thy Deſtiny; […]

Source: wiktionary

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