gibbet

noun

1. An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display.

   “Near-synonym: gallows”

   “Thy Friends without the help of Prophecie, / Read Goals^([sic – meaning Gaols]) and Gibbets in thy Deſtiny; […]”

   “No, had every Commandment but a Gibbet belonging to it, I ſhould not have had four King's Evidences to-day ſwear impudently I was a Papiſt, when I was never at Maſs yet ſince I was born, nor indeed at any other Worſhip theſe twenty Years.”

   “Why, your cavalier is a rebel—an exile, whose property is confiscated, and for whose neck the gibbet stands prepared!”

2. The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended.
3. A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal.

verb

1. (transitive)To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet.
2. (transitive)To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn.