Gibbet

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.

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

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To hang and expose on a gibbet.

2. To expose to infamy; to blacken. I'll gibbet up his name. Oldham.