Word: gibbet
Category: gibbet
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Synonyms: gibbet
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: gibbet
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spanish
Translations:
patíbulo, horca
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german
Translations:
galgen
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french
Translations:
pendre, potence, gibet
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russian
Translations:
виселица, повешение
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finnish
Translations:
hirsipuu
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czech
Translations:
šibenice, oběsit
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polish
Translations:
szubienica
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hungarian
Translations:
akasztás, felakasztás
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greek
Translations:
κρεμάλα
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ukrainian
Translations:
шибениця, повішання, соболиний, повішення
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estonian
Translations:
võllas
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croatian
Translations:
vješanje, vješala
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slovak
Translations:
šibenice
The meaning and "use of": gibbet
noun
- a gallows. - A keen historian he also spent considerable time searching for items of historical interest and even managed to locate a gibbet from an old gallows from which a young Irish lad was hung in 1832.
- hang up (a body) on a gibbet. - Hangings were public affairs and sometimes the bodies were gibbeted - left on the noose after death as a sign of the consequences of crime.
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