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

gibbet in spanish

Dictionary:
spanish
Translations:
patíbulo, horca

gibbet in german

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german
Translations:
galgen

gibbet in french

Dictionary:
french
Translations:
pendre, potence, gibet

gibbet in russian

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russian
Translations:
виселица, повешение

gibbet in finnish

Dictionary:
finnish
Translations:
hirsipuu

gibbet in czech

Dictionary:
czech
Translations:
šibenice, oběsit

gibbet in polish

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polish
Translations:
szubienica

gibbet in hungarian

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hungarian
Translations:
akasztás, felakasztás

gibbet in greek

Dictionary:
greek
Translations:
κρεμάλα

gibbet in ukrainian

Dictionary:
ukrainian
Translations:
шибениця, повішання, соболиний, повішення

gibbet in estonian

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estonian
Translations:
võllas

gibbet in croatian

Dictionary:
croatian
Translations:
vješanje, vješala

gibbet in slovak

Dictionary:
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.
verb
  • 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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