Stocks are a feet restraining device that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation. The use of stocks is seen as early as Classical Athens, where they are described as being in use in Solon 's law code.

There was a variant (rather of the stocks type), called a barrel pillory, or Spanish mantle, used to punish drunks, which is reported in England and among its troops. It fitted over the entire body, with the head sticking out from a hole in the top.

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The stocks consist of placing boards around the ankles, and sometimes also the wrists, with the punished held in a seated position, whereas the pillory has boards fixed to a pole and placed around the arms and neck, forcing the punished to stand.

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