a post to which a person is bound, often using chains or ropes, for public punishment or humiliation, typically involving whipping
Daniel Defoe in the Pillory (Eyre Crowe, 1862) The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory
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 renaissance periods for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse. The pillory is related to the stocks.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).