historical <史>
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- a gallows绞刑架, 绞台。
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- an upright post with an arm on which the bodies of executed criminals were left hanging as a warning or deterrent to others绞刑尸体示众架。
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the gibbet
execution by hanging绞死, 绞刑：the four ringleaders were sentenced to the gibbet.
四个头目被处绞刑。
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gibbeted, gibbeting
with obj. hang up (a body) on a gibbet将（尸体）吊上绞刑示众架。
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- execute (someone) by hanging将…在绞刑架上绞死, 将…处以绞刑。
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- archaic, figurative hold up to contempt〈古, 喻〉使当众受辱：
poor Melbourne is gibbeted in the Times.
可怜的梅尔本遭到《泰晤士报》羞辱。
词源
Middle English: from Old French gibet 'staff, cudgel, gallows', diminutive of gibe 'club, staff', probably of Germanic origin.