PILLORY meaning: Stocks for public humiliation, punishment

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word pillory:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

pillory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pillory: Merriam-Webster
pillory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
pillory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
pillory: Collins English Dictionary
pillory: Vocabulary.com
Pillory, pillory: Wordnik
pillory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
pillory: Wiktionary
pillory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
pillory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
pillory: Infoplease Dictionary
Pillory, pillory: Dictionary.com
pillory (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
Pillory (horse), Pillory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Pillory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
pillory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
pillory: Rhymezone
Pillory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
pillory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
pillory: FreeDictionary.org
pillory: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
pillory: Mnemonic Dictionary
pillory: TheFreeDictionary.com
Pillory: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
The pillory, pillory: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

The pillory, pillory: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

The pillory, pillory: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

pillory: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

pillory: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To put in a pillory.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To criticize harshly.

Similar:

stocks, gibbet, penance, little-ease, Palmer, pillarbox, pell, madrier, picket, pulpit, more...

Opposite:

praise, commendation, accolade, applause

Types:

stocks, jail, prison, torture, more...

Phrases:

barrel pillory, the pillory, pillory threesome, more...

Adjectives:

public, eternal, same, old, portable, new, moral, ancient, worst, wooden, perpetual

Colors:

gray, brown, black, dark brown, rust, more...