Pillory
formerly a common instrument of punishment for persons convicted of forestalling, use of unjust weights, perjury, weights, perjury, forgery, libel, etc. It of a frame of wood, erected on a pillar or stand, and furnished with movable boards, resembling those of the stocks, and holes through which the offender's head and hands were put. In this position he was exposed for a certain time to public view and insult. The use of the pillory was abolished in France in 1832, in England in 1837, and in the United States in 1839.
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