Crossword-Solution: GIBBET
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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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. |
| Gibbet | n. | The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib. |
| Gibbet | v. t. | To hang and expose on a gibbet. |
| Gibbet | v. t. | To expose to infamy; to blacken. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GIBBET | anagram | BIGBET |
We have 26 clues for the answer “GIBBET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Symbol of Jack Ketch's work. | 1 answer |
| Tyburn tree | 2 answers |
| Expose to public scorn | 2 answers |
| scrag | 4 answers |
| UPRIGHT post | 4 answers |
| Davit | 5 answers |
| string up | 5 answers |
| Crucifix | 8 answers |
| Gallows | 8 answers |
| pillory | 9 answers |
| stigmatise | 13 answers |
| Turn off | 14 answers |
| Noose | 17 answers |
| Execrate | 22 answers |
| flay | 22 answers |
| dispraise | 26 answers |
| Stake | 35 answers |
| Run down | 38 answers |
| damn | 39 answers |
| Rundown | 41 answers |
| Condemn | 41 answers |
| cavil | 42 answers |
| depreciate | 42 answers |
| Defame | 43 answers |
| Hang | 48 answers |
| Scourge | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GIBBET (5)
And now I rede thee go not to the Burg of the Four Friths; for this tale of thee shall get about and they shall take thee, if it were out of the very Frith-stool, and there for thee should be the scourge and the gibbet; for they of that Burg be robbers and murderers merciless.
God speed the day of his coronation, when, before the very eyes of the Plantagenet hound, a black cap shall be placed upon his head for a crown; beneath his feet the platform of a wooden gibbet for a throne.” CHAPTER VII It was a beautiful spring day in May, 1262, that Norman of Torn rode alone down the narrow trail that led to the pretty cottage with which he had replaced the hut of his old friend, Father Claude.
One after another closed his obscure adventures in mid-air, triced up to the arm of the royal gibbet or the Baron’s dule-tree.
And here, appropriately enough, there stood in old days a crow-haunted gibbet, with two bodies hanged in chains.
Indignant Alma Mater interfered before the king; and the Provost was deprived of all royal offices, and condemned to return the bodies and erect a great stone cross, on the road from Paris to the gibbet graven with the effigies of these two holy martyrs.
Quotes with GIBBET (3)
A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.
I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion," said the old man vehemently. "Not only are they devilishly cruel but they are not even common sense. They do not lesson the evil in the world, they increase it, by making those who handle these cruelties as wicked as those who suffer them. No, I'm wrong, more wicked, for there is always some expiation made in the endurance of suffering and none at all in the infliction of it.
That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1958–1984).