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Pillories
Pillory Pil"lo*ry, n.; pl. Pillories. [F. pilori; cf. Pr. espitlori, LL. piloricum, pilloricum, pellericum, pellorium, pilorium, spilorium; perhaps from a derivative of L. speculari to look around, observe. Cf. Speculate.] 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. --Shak.

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- media related to Pillories. Examples of Pillories from the UK and Ireland on geograph.org.uk Debate in the House of Commons on the Pillory Abolition Bill...
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- the hit Broadway play of the same name by Teichmann and Kaufman that pillories big business and corrupt businessmen. The film stars Judy Holliday and...
- and his Parliament who had the statue erected here in 1675. A prominent pillory, where malefactors were publicly flogged, stood alongside for centuries...
- including the first Carthusian Martyrs, were executed and many more pilloried. The most prominent resisters included John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester...
- angled blade suspended at the top. The condemned person is secured with a pillory at the bottom of the frame, holding the position of the neck directly below...
- Spanish technique of torture for crushing the toes and fingers by means of pillories and wedges.[better source needed] The only writer to comment in detail...
- ears as an act of physical punishment. It was performed along with the pillorying or immobilisation in the stocks, and sometimes alongside punishments such...
- 1–5 Pillory Street is a large curved corner block in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, in the French Baroque style of the late 17th century, which is listed...