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Finger pillory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A finger pillory is a style of restraint where the fingers are held in a wooden block, using an L-shaped hole to keep the knuckle bent inside the block. The name is taken from the pillory, a much la...
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*The finger pillory was used in upper class halls to punish the disorderly during social gatherings. ... A finger pillory (sometimes called a "finger stock") enclosed one's fingers in a block of wood, bent at the middle joint - very painful!
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The finger pillory is a simple device for restraining the finger?and thus the body?of someone who has been fingered as being a miscreant. The drawing and description shown here (see Figure 1) are from the book The Archeological Album;
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finger painting; finger painting; Finger Paintings of the Insane; Finger Paintings of the Insane; finger percussion; Finger phalanges; finger phenomenon; finger pick; finger pick; Finger picking; Finger picks; Finger pie; Finger pillory; Finger placements; finger plakkie; finger plate;
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The relentless desire to tinker with food -- and other variables. ... Last week we were up at his home for one of our three or four weekly visits, and I said to G, "Something's different. Something's changed, and I can't quite put my finger on it. He's less responsive." He seemed to me to be going inside himself,
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