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Definitions of pillory in various dictionaries:
noun - a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck
verb - expose to ridicule or public scorn
verb - punish by putting in a pillory
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| Puritan punishment, it's a device in which both hands & head were locked in a wooden frame |
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| to severely criticize someone, especially in a public way: |
| a wooden framework with holes for the head and hands, in which offenders were formerly imprisoned and exposed to public abuse. |
| A wooden framework on a post, with holes for the head and hands, in which offenders were formerly locked to be exposed to public scorn as punishment. |
| To expose to ridicule and abuse. |
| To put in a pillory as punishment. |
| a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the neck and hands offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn |
| punish by putting in a pillory |
| expose to ridicule or public scorn |
| criticize harshly or violently |
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| The pillory was a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse. The pillory is related to the stocks.The word is documented in English since 1274 (attested in Anglo-Latin from c. 1189), and stems from Old French pellori (1168; modern French pilori, see below), itself from medieval Latin pilloria, of uncertain origin, perhaps a diminutive of Latin pila "pillar, stone barrier". |