Definition of "gibbets" [gibbets]

• Plural form of gibbet. (noun)

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• "It is hard to imagine there would be an opportunity for cutting off the hand while the body is still in the gallows (since gibbets are no longer used, this would be your only option)."
• "Where the grim gray rotting gibbets stand as Magellan reared them on the strand,"
• "Paul Wills's design creates first a bland mushroom-coloured hotel room and then a shattered building open to the sky (there are no heavens here) whose thick beams and rafters look like gibbets and like crucifixes."