Pillory
Pillory , noun
[French pilori; compare Pr. espitlori, Late Latin piloricum, pilloricum, pellericum, pellorium, pilorium, spilorium; perhaps from a derivative of Latin speculari to look around, observe. Compare Speculate.]
A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it. — Shakespeare
Pillory , transitive verb
[Compare French pilorier.]
1.
To set in, or punish with, the pillory.
Hungering for Puritans to pillory.
2.
Figuratively, to expose to public scorn. — Gladstone