A pillory is a wooden frame with cutouts for someone's head and hands. Long ago, people found guilty of a crime could be sentenced to be locked in a pillory for a certain amount of time for punishment but also for public humiliation.
A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it.
Noun
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
Verb
criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
Verb
punish by putting in a pillory
Verb
expose to ridicule or public scorn
n.
A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having
holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as
to be exposed in front of it.
v. t.
To set in, or punish with, the pillory.
v. t.
Figuratively, to expose to public scorn.
Pillory
Pillory
A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it.
To set in, or punish with, the pillory.
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