The act of hanging someone on a gibbet; executing and displaying as a public warning.
From 'gibbet' as a verb, adding the present-participle suffix '-ing.' Became common in historical narratives of judicial punishment.
The practice of 'gibbeting' criminals was so standard in medieval and early modern Europe that entire specialized legal codes developed about how long bodies should hang—some stayed up for decades as permanent roadside monuments to justice!
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