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jougs, n. pl. Sc.|dʒugz, dʒʌgz|
Rarely in sing. joug. Forms: (6 jorgs), 7 jog(g)s, 8–9 jougs (9 jugg(s, jagg).
[app. a. F. joug or L. jugum yoke: the sense seems to be confined to Sc. The pl. form app. refers to the construction of the collar in two hinged halves adapted to be locked together.]
An old Scottish instrument of punishment, analogous to the pillory; it consisted of an iron collar, which was locked round the culprit's neck, and was attached by a chain to a wall or post.
1596in Collect. Lives Reformers Ch. Scot. (1848) II. 72 The Session [of Glasgow] appoint jorgs and branks to be made for punishing flyters. 1646Bp. Maxwell Burd. Issach. in Phenix (1708) II. 262 Making them stand in ‘jogs’, as they call them,—pillorys..fix'd to the two sides of the main door of the parish-church. 1661Kirk Session Rothesay in A. Edgar Old Ch. Life Scotl. Ser. i. 311 If hereafter she should be found drunk, she should be put in the joggs. 1771Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1769 (1790) 173 Observed on a pillar of the door of Calder church, a joug, i.e. an iron yoke or ring, fastened to a chain. 1814Scott Wav. x, He set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory). 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iv. x. 518 The jougs, which consists of an iron collar, attached by a chain to a pillar or tree, forms the corresponding judicial implement to the English stocks. 1882Cornh. Mag. Feb. 206 Offenders were put into the jugg and severely flogged at the church door. 1884C. Rogers Soc. Life Scotl. I. viii. 354 Those who cheated in the market were..borne by the executioner to the Cross, and thereto..made fast with a jagg or iron collar.
Hence joug, jog, v., to confine in the jougs.
1632Act in Barry Orkney (1805) App. 474 The Baillie of the paroch..shall cause him be jogged at the church, upon Sunday, from 8 in the morning till 12 hours at noon. |