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Gibbet [fr. gibet, Fr.], a gallows; but post on which malefactors are hanged, or on which their bodies are exposed after death-a practice abolished in England by 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 36.

A post with one arm extending from top, from which originals one either executed by hanging as suspended after death as a warning to other potential offender, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 696.