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Pillory vs Gallow - What's the difference?

pillory | gallow |

As verbs the difference between pillory and gallow

is that pillory is to put in a pillory while gallow is (obsolete) to frighten.

As a noun pillory

is a framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.

pillory

English

(wikipedia pillory)

Noun

(pillories)
  • A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • 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 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.}}

    gallow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) to frighten
  • * 1605': The wrathful skies / '''Gallow the very wanderers of the dark / And make them keep their caves. — William Shakespeare, ''King Lear III.ii

    • See also

    * gallows