Definition of "gibbeted" [gibbeted]

• Simple past tense and past participle of gibbet. (verb)

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• "In ancient Assyria, such miscreants were gibbeted, or impaled between the legs, on the sharp top of a pole planted upright in the ground, their screams heard for miles as their own body weight slowly drove the stake into them until they died."
• "Three years afterwards, his bones were dug up and gibbeted by the command of the"
• "Cormac, left on the moor of Thorn and in Rochinroy Wood; and as many were gibbeted at Houghmanstares, which has still the name from the hangman work that was done there."