Pillory vs Stockade - What's the difference?
pillory | stockade |
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
an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts
(colloquial) a military prison
To enclose in a stockade.
In transitive terms the difference between pillory and stockade
is that pillory is to criticize harshly while stockade is to enclose in a stockade.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.}}