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Definition :

Pillory, a frame erected on a pillar, and made with holes and moveable boards, through which the heads and hands of criminals were put.

The punishment of the pillory, abolished by 56 Geo. 3, c. 138, except for perjury, a person convicted for which was directed, by the still unrepealed 5 Eliz. c. 9, to have his ears nailed thereto, was altogether and finally abolished in 1837 by 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 23.