gibbet

«gibbet» in Mova's school dictionary: A gibbet was a wooden frame on which a criminal was… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (gibbet, gibbets)

meaning for a pupil

(old use) A gibbet was a wooden frame on which a criminal was hanged, and the body was left there to be seen. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old stories, a gibbet stands outside a town as a warning to people

examples

• A gibbet stood on the hill above the road. tree →
• The thief was hung on the gibbet for all to see. tree →
• Crows sat on the gibbet. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gibbet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.