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stocks

Wooden frame with holes used in Europe and the USA until the 19th century to confine the legs and sometimes the arms of minor offenders, and expose them to public humiliation. The pillory had a similar purpose.


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The supposed aboriginal stocks must all have been rock-pigeons, that is, not breeding or willingly perching on trees.
In the old days men used to worship stocks and stones and idols, and prayed to them to give them luck.
On the floor they were pounding half a dozen stocks in which Maxwell's customers were heavy investors.
 
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