Tree vs. Gibbet — What's the Difference?

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only wood plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height.

A device used for hanging a person until dead; a gallows.

A woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.

An upright post with a crosspiece, forming a T-shaped structure from which executed criminals were formerly hung for public viewing.

A wooden structure or part of a structure.

To execute by hanging on a gibbet.

A thing that has a branching structure resembling that of a tree.

To hang on a gibbet for public viewing.

Force (a hunted animal) to take refuge in a tree.

To expose to infamy or public ridicule.

(of an area) planted with trees

An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display. Category:en:Capital punishment

A perennial woody plant having a main trunk and usually a distinct crown.

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

An herbaceous plant or shrub resembling a tree in form or size.

A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal.

Something that resembles a tree in form, especially a diagram or arrangement that has branches showing relationships of hierarchy or lineage.

(transitive) To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet.

(Computers) A structure for organizing or classifying data in which every item can be traced to a single origin through a unique path.

(transitive) To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn.

A wooden beam, post, stake, or bar used as part of a framework or structure.

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 as a warning.

A saddletree.

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

A gallows.

To hang and expose on a gibbet.

The cross on which Jesus was crucified.

To expose to infamy; to blacken.

To force up a tree

Instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging

(Informal) To force into a difficult position; corner

Hang on an execution instrument

To supply or cover with trees

Expose to ridicule or public scorn

A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage.

Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense).

An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.

A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.

The structural frame of a saddle.

(graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.

(computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.

(graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.

Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.

The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.

Marijuana.

(obsolete) A cross or gallows.

(chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.

(cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.

(transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

(transitive) To place in a tree.

(transitive) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.

(intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; - used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

Wood; timber.

A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

A figure that branches from a single root;

English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

Chase a bear up a tree with dogs and kill it