Definition of 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.