| 单词 | finger stocks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfinger stocks finger stocks n. now historical (a) a kind of pillory in which the offender is secured by the fingers; = finger pillory n.; (b) a device formerly used as a school punishment for fidgetting, nail-biting, etc., consisting of two small wooden plates with fingerholes into which the fingers are inserted with the hands behind the wearer's back, the plates then being tied together. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > thumb-screw pilliwinks1397 screw1663 thumbikins1684 finger stocks1686 finger pillory1801 thumb-lock1801 thumbscrew1816 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 390 Finger-Stocks; into which the Lord of misrule, used formerly to put the fingers of all such persons as committed misdemeanours. 1782 R. Greene Particular & Descriptive Catal. Lichfield Mus. 33 The ancient Finger Stocks from Beaudesert,..a punishment formerly inflicted by the Lord of Misrule, on such Servants as committed Misdemeanours. 1844 W. Goodman Social Hist. Great Brit. II. 148 There is also a pair of finger stocks, with a poor box attached, placed at the west-end of the north aisle. 1898 Boston Daily Globe 14 Oct. 8/6 These finger-stocks were also used as a mode of punishment, the children having to stand with their hands fixed in them for an hour or more at a time. 1967 Illustr. London News 22 July 28/1 The Judge's finger-stocks are there too, which he is said to have used to confine prisoners to the dock. 2004 P. Brown Eve v. 141 Humiliating contraptions such as dunce hats, placards and finger stocks, which immobilised the child's hands behind their back. < as lemmas |
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