gibbet vs scaffold

gibbet

noun
  • An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display. 

  • The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib. 

  • A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal. 

verb
  • To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn. 

  • To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet. 

scaffold

noun
  • An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed. 

  • A structure that provides support for some other material. 

  • A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building. 

  • An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace. 

  • An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes. 

verb
  • To sustain; to provide support for. 

  • To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding. 

  • To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes. 

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