What is "gibbets"

Usage examples of "gibbets".

Sleep finally began to overtake them all as the gibbets turned softly, endlessly, in the depths of the darkness.

Without warning each of the gibbets dissolved, and the three prisoners fell crashing to the marble floor.

I have, in my government of Scotland and Ireland, seven hundred and forty-one wooden gibbets, of strong oak, clamped with iron, and freshly greased every week.

I will make a present of one of these gibbets to each of you, and observe well, M.

As for you - I cannot suppose you will be silly enough to denounce yourselves, for then the king, to spare himself the expense of feeding and lodging you, will send you off to Scotland, where the seven hundred and forty-one gibbets are to be found.

You did not appear to have any fear of the gibbets of Monk, or the Bastile of his majesty, King Louis XIV.

They arrived in sight of the two gibbets, from which Raoul turned away his eyes in disgust.

And, while Raoul turned away his eyes in compassion, he pointed to the musketeers the gibbets laden with their melancholy fruit.

The street, dimly lighted by a couple of oil lamps swinging from gibbets at the corners of a crossroad, seemed to be peopled by shadows surreptitiously lurking in doorways.