Gibbet
(g soft). A foot-pad, who “piqued himself on being the
best-behaved man on the road.” (George Farquhar: Beaux' Stratagem.)
To gibbet the bread (Lincolnshire). When bread turns out ropy and is
supposed to be bewitched, the good dame runs a stick through it and
hangs it in the cupboard. It is gibbeted in terrorem to other
batches.
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