Gibbet
Gibbet , noun
[Old English gibet, French gibet, in Old French also club, from Late Latin gibetum;; compare Old French gibe sort of sickle or hook, Italian giubbetto gibbet, and giubbetta, dim. of giubba mane, also, an under waistcoat, doublet, Prov. Italian gibba (compare Jupon); so that it perhaps originally signified a halter, a rope round the neck of malefactors; or it is, perhaps, derived from Latin gibbus hunched, humped, English gibbous; or compare English jib a sail.]
1.
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 as a warning.
2.
The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
Gibbet , transitive verb
1.
To hang and expose on a gibbet.
2.
To expose to infamy; to blacken.
I'll gibbet up his name.