Pillory vs Gallows - What's the difference?
pillory | gallows |
A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.
To put in a pillory.
To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
To criticize harshly.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 24
, author=Aled Williams
, title=Chelsea 4 - 1 Swansea
, work=BBC Sport
Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1728
, chapter = The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Solider's Fortune
, title = The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway
, volume = 2
, first = Thomas
, last = Otway
, authorlink = Thomas Otway
, location = London
, page = 37
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=yF1AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA37
, passage = No, Sir, 'tis fear of Hanging. Who would not ?teal, or do Murder, every time his Fingers itch'd at it, were it not for fear of the Gallows ?
}}
(colloquial, obsolete) A wretch who deserves to be hanged.
* 1590 , , V. ii. 12:
(printing, obsolete) The rest for the tympan when raised.
(colloquial, obsolete) suspenders; braces
(gallow)
As nouns the difference between pillory and gallows
is that pillory is a framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation while gallows is wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging.As verbs the difference between pillory and gallows
is that pillory is to put in a pillory while gallows is third-person singular of gallow.pillory
English
(wikipedia pillory)Noun
(pillories)Verb
(en-verb)citation, page= , passage=The breakthrough came through Torres who, pilloried for his miss against Manchester United a week earlier, scored his second goal of the season.}}
gallows
English
(wikipedia gallows)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too. / You'll ne'er be friends with him: a' kill'd your sister.