This is the wooden frame that hold the rope used to hang pirates. A metal frame that was made to fit the body of the pirate that was to be hung. The dead pirate hung there until his body was rotted away. It was a warning to others who were thinking of becoming a pirate.

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

hang on an execution instrument

expose to ridicule or public scorn

a gallows, hence, this is a particularly fierce and bloody articulation of Emersonian individualism

a gallows that has a post with a "projecting arm" on which the bodies of executed criminals were hung for display

A cage for corpses of criminals to be displayed until they rotted, as well as a gallows.

Gibbet is a term applied to several different devices used in the capital punishment of criminals and/or the deterrence of potential criminals.