A wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging; SYN. gallowstree, gibbet, gallous.

ETYM Old Eng. gibet, French gibet, in Old Fren. also club, from Late Lat. gibetum; cf. Old Fren. gibe sort of sickle or hook, Italian giubbetto gibbet, and giubbetta, dim. of giubba mane, also, an under waistcoat, doublet, Prov. Italian gibba (cf. Jupon).
1. A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, criminals were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain as a warning.
2. The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib. + prikaži više