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.
To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn.
To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet.
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.
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.