plural. An obsolete instrument of punishment, consisting of two planks set edgewise one over the other (usually framed between posts), the upper…

A device for punishment, usually consisting of a wooden framework mounted on a post, with holes or rings for trapping the head and hands, in which…

singular. Obsolete. rare.

singular and plural. The pillory.

a pillory.

plural harmans, the stocks.

(a) a trap or snare for the feet; †(b) the stocks, the pillory (obsolete).

In plural. colloquial. A type of stocks in which a person's hands or feet were secured in holes; (also) the holes in which a prisoner's hands were…

An old Scottish instrument of punishment, analogous to the pillory; it consisted of an iron collar, which was locked round the culprit's neck, and…

A word used in the Old English or Anglo-Saxon Laws, meaning apparently originally some punishment and afterwards the fine in commutation thereof…

Scottish. A kind of pillory. Obsolete.

The stocks. Cf. stock, n.1 8. Obsolete. rare.

In plural. cant. The pillory. Obsolete. rare.

Humorously or affectedly used for the stocks (obsolete).

slang or jocular names for the pillory (cf. cravat, n.).

slang (now historical) the wooden ruff: the pillory.

(a) in plural = stock, n.1 8a (now historical); (b) = stock, n.1 44a.

= wooden cravat n.

the pillory.

slang. Norway neckcloth n. a pillory. Obsolete.

humorous for ‘a pillory’.

Cant. The pillory. Obsolete.

transferred. Applied to any object familiar to the speaker, composed wholly or chiefly of wood, as †a spear-shaft; †a bowl; a ship; the stocks (slang…

= stock, n.1 8a. Obsolete. rare.