Jougs

"On the look of the man I would give him the jougs," said he. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

'Up wi' him! 'cried Madge wi' the Fiery Face, who had just been loosed from the 'jougs,' wherein she had been confined for 'kenspeckle incontinence.' ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)

It stands on the lower "corbie" step of a pigeon-house, with the strange accompaniment of a pair of "jougs," an iron collar for securing a prisoner. ❋ Unknown (1900)

The road to the house led past the pigeon-house, so that the dial and jougs could be seen by all. ❋ Unknown (1900)

Lauderdale almost alone interfered, and procured, to his infinite honour, a delay of six months in the extension of this act, -- a sort of reprieve from the southern _jougs_, -- by which we may have some chance of profiting, if, during the interval, we can show ourselves true ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

The few cottages that remain speak of other days, and the old churchyard, and the jougs -- an iron collar in which offenders were pilloried -- fastened to the porch of the church, bring back the long-forgotten past. ❋ John Hunter (1883)

At the church gates is the historical _jougs_, a place of penance for the neck of detected sinners, and the historical _louping-on stane_, from which Dutch-built lairds and farmers climbed into the saddle. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

First, however, the present possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than in exercising it; and excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying 'there were mair fules in the laird's ha' house than Davie ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

Like James the first, however, the present possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than in exercising it; and, excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying ` ` there were mair fules in the laird's ha 'house than Davie Gellatley,' ' ❋ Unknown (1877)

Like James the First, however, the present possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than in exercising it; and excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying 'there were mair fules in the laird's ha' house than Davie ❋ Walter Scott (1801)