| 单词 | the wooden ruff |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe wooden ruff slang (now historical) the wooden ruff: the pillory. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks stocksc1325 pilloryc1330 stocka1382 gofe1489 stretchneck1543 harmans1567 foot trap1585 pigeonholes1592 jougs1596 berlina1607 halsfang1607 gorget1635 cippusa1637 nutcrackers1648 catasta1664 wooden cravat1676 the wooden ruff1677 neck stock1681 wooden casement1685 timber-stairsc1750 Norway neckcloth1785 law-neck-cloth1789 stoop1795 timber1851–4 nerve1854 1677 Poor Robins Answer 6 Forgery is a crime generally punishable by the Wooden Ruff. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Wooden He wore the Wooden-ruff, he stood in the Pillory. 1772 H. Dagge Considerations Criminal Law iii. x. 963 If the Theft is of an atrocious nature, the criminal is condemned to the knoutage, or wooden ruff. 1846 Punch 10 212/2 Had he lived in the good old pillory times, and,..worn the wooden ruff for his zeal,..he could scarcely [etc.]. 1901 F. Cheynell Rise & Growth Eng. Nation III. lxiv. 99 Usually, the miserable occupants of ‘the wooden ruff’ were hooted and pelted by the crowd. 2000 M. Waller 1700 xiv. 282 His neck is wedged into the ‘wooden ruff’ and his arms are twisted at an unnatural angle into the holes on either side of his head. < as lemmas |
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