pillories
pillories is the plural of pillory.
pillories is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pillory.
Meaning of pillory
Noun
pillory (plural pillories)
- A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.
- Maires and Maceris that meanes be betwene / The Kynge and the comon to kepe the lawes / To pũnyſhen on pyleries and pynning ſtoles / Bruſterrs and bakeſters, bochers and cokes / For theſe ar mẽ on this mold þᵉ moſt harme worketh / To the pore people that percel mele byghe[...][c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “[Passus 3]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...] (Cr, B-text) (in Middle English), London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC, folio xiii, verso
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- What is pillories the plural of?
- Pillories is the plural of pillory.
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