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Gibbet

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A gallows; the post on which malefactors are hanged or on which their bodies are exposed. It differs from a common gallows, in that it consists of one perpendicular post, from the top of which proceeds one arm, except it be a double gibbet, which is formed in the shape of the Roman capital T. Ena Lond.