gibbet

[US]/'dʒɪbɪt/
[UK]/'dʒɪbɪt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. kuteketea kwa shingo; kuonyeshwa kama mchele
n. mchemsho; mfumo wa kuteketea.
Word Forms
Past Participlegibbeted
Pluralgibbets
Past Tensegibbeted
Third Person Singulargibbets
Present Participlegibbeting

Example Sentences

The criminal was hung on the gibbet as a warning to others.

Jeha alikamatwa kwenye gibbet kama onyo kwa wengine.

The gibbet stood ominously in the town square.

Gibbet ilisimama kwa hali ya kutisha katika shamba la mji.

The gibbet was used for public executions in medieval times.

Gibbet ilitumika kwa maadhimisho ya umma katika wakati wa karne.

The condemned man was placed in the gibbet to face his fate.

Mtu aliyeambiwa kufa alipangwa kwenye gibbet ili kukabiliana na hatima yake.

The gibbet was a gruesome sight, sending shivers down the spines of onlookers.

Gibbet ilikuwa ni mtazamo wa kuchukua, ikisababisha kichwa cha watu wanaoangalia.

The gibbet was a symbol of justice and punishment in ancient times.

Gibbet ilikuwa ni alama ya haki na adhabu katika wakati wa zamani.

The gibbet was a common sight in the town square during the reign of the tyrant.

Gibbet ilikuwa ni mtazano wa kawaida katika shamba la mji wakati wa utawala wa dikteta.

The gibbet was used to display the bodies of executed criminals as a warning to others.

Gibbet ilitumika kuonyesha miili ya wahalifu waliokamatwa kama onyo kwa wengine.

The gibbet creaked in the wind, adding an eerie atmosphere to the deserted place.

Gibbet ilikuwa inachukua hewa, ikiongeza hali ya kutisha kwenye eneo lililowekwa.

The gibbet was a grim reminder of the consequences of breaking the law.

Gibbet ilikuwa ni kumbukumbu ya kutisha ya matokeo ya kuvunja sheria.

Real-world Examples

" Let them share a gibbet, " said Symon Stripeback. " They unleashed two dragons on the city" .

" Wapigwe kwenye gibebe moja, " alisema Symon Stripeback. " Walitoa nishati yao ya nyoka wawili kwenye mji" .

Source: A Dance with Dragons: The Song of Ice and Fire (Bilingual Chinese-English)

Outside the inn on a weathered gibbet, a woman's bones were twisting and rattling at every gust of wind.

Nje ya hosteli kwenye gibebe lililochafuka, mifupa ya mwanamke ilikuwa inazunguka na kugongana kila mara upepo unapokuja.

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Ice and Rain (Bilingual)

They brought it in burglary, and that's why he was hanged and gibbeted on Brown House Hill.

Walimshikilia kwa sababu ya uhalifu wa wizi, na ndiyo sababu alipigwa kwenye gibebe kwenye Mlima wa Nyumba ya Brown.

Source: Jude the Obscure (Part Two)

" If you wouldn't be sent to gibbet, get down to this! "

" Ikiwa hujatakiwa kutumwa kwenye gibebe, shuka hapa! "

Source: Pan Pan

" I know where the gibbet is said to have stood, very well, " murmured Jude.

" Ninajua mahali gibebe lililosema kuliwemo, vizuri sana, " alisema Jude kwa sauti ya chini.

Source: Jude the Obscure (Part Two)

He passed the spot where the gibbet of his ancestor and Sue's had stood, and descended the hill.

Alipita eneo ambalo gibebe la babu yake na la Sue lilikuwa likiwa, na alishuka mlima.

Source: Jude the Obscure (Part Two)

The smuggling of salt and tobacco sends every year several hundred people to the galleys, besides a very considerable number whom it sends to the gibbet.

Uhalifu wa kuleta chumvi na sigara hupeleka kila mwaka watu mia kadhaa kwenye galezi, pamoja na idadi kubwa sana ambayo hupeleka kwenye gibebe.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Five)

The wheel, the gibbet, the strappado, kept good guard around the place of refuge, and lay in watch incessantly for their prey, like sharks around a vessel.

Gari, gibebe, na strappado, ziliweka ulinzi mzuri kuzunguka eneo la kimbilio, na zilikuwa zikisimama kwa usalama ili kutafuta chakula chao, kama shetani kuzunguka meli.

Source: Marriage and Love

Under the low red glare of sunset, the beacon, and the gibbet, and the mound of the Battery, and the opposite shore of the river, were plain, though all of a watery lead color.

Chini ya mwangaza wa jua la jua la jua, alama, gibebe, na mlima wa Battery, na pwani ya kinyume ya mto, yalikuwa wazi, ingawa yote yalikuwa na rangi ya chuma cha maji.

Source: Great Expectations (Original Version)

Dom Nicolas winked both his big eyes, and seemed to choke upon his Adam's apple. Montfaucon, the great grisly Paris gibbet, stood hard by the St. Denis Road, and the pleasantry touched him on the raw.

Dom Nicolas alibana macho yake makubwa yote, na aliona kama alikuwa akikwama kwenye kichwa chake cha Adamu. Montfaucon, gibebe kubwa la Paris lililochafuka, liliwepo karibu na Barabara ya St. Denis, na ushauri huo ulimsumbua.

Source: The New Arabian Nights (Part Two)

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