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Pillory - Wikipedia
The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used during the medieval and ...
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PILLORY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked.
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Pillory - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
As a modern verb, pillory means both to criticize harshly and to expose to public ridicule. Someone who is caught doing something immoral may be pilloried and ...
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▪ I. pillory, n. (ˈpɪlərɪ) Forms: 3–4 pillori, 3–7 pyllory, 4–7 pilory, 5 pilery, pullery, pull-, pyllorie, pelory, 5–6 pillery, -ie, pyllere, -ery, pylery, pillorye, 5–7 pillorie, 6 pyllary, pillarie, 7 pillary, 3– pillory. [ME. pillori, pilory, etc., a. OF. pellori (1168), pilorit, pilori (13th c....
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PILLORY Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
verb (used with object) · to set in the pillory. · to expose to public derision, ridicule, or abuse. The candidate mercilessly pilloried his opponent.
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Pillory | Definition, History, & Examples - Britannica
Pillory, an instrument of corporal punishment consisting of a wooden post and frame fixed on a platform raised several feet from the ground.
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PILLORY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
to severely criticize someone, especially in a public way. Although regularly pilloried by the press as an obnoxious loudmouth, he is, nonetheless, an ...
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Pillory or Stocks? - Tastes Of History
Explaining the difference between the historical punishments known as pillories and stocks, which are often confused.
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Commonly Confused Words: Pillory and Stocks. The difference is?
The pillory is often confused with the stocks, but there's a key difference. It was a wooden frame with 3 holes through which the head and hands of a suspected ...
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'Pillory': A Public Display of Word History - Merriam-Webster
One of the many words that English has for mocking someone is pillory (“to expose to public contempt, ridicule, or scorn”)
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pillory/ˈpɪlərɪ; `pɪlərɪ/ nwooden framework with holes for the head and hands, into which wrongdoers were locked in former times, so that they could be publicly ridiculed 枷. =>illus 见插图. pillory, v (pt, pp -ried / -lərɪd; -lərɪd/) [Tn]attack or ridicule (sb) in public 公开攻击或嘲笑（某人） She was pilloried i...
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Pillory (horse)
Pillory (foaled 1919 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Pillory's time of 1:51.60 equaled the winning time of Man o' War two years earlier.
Stud record
Pillory was not successful at stud.
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Finger pillory
A finger pillory is a style of restraint where the fingers are held in a wooden block, using an L-shaped hole to keep the knuckle bent inside the block The name is taken from the pillory, a much larger device used to secure the head and hands.
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Pillory of Lisbon
The Pillory of Lisbon () is a pillory situated in the municipal square of the Portuguese capital (in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior in the municipality On 1 November 1755, the Lisbon earthquake destroyed both pillory and square.
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Pillory of Bragança
History
The pillory was erected in 500 A.D. In 1187, D. the pillory for delinquency in the village.
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