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  • 51pillory — Synonyms and related words: Oregon boat, attaint, bespatter, bilbo, blacken, blot, blow upon, bond, bonds, brand, branks, bridle, bring into discredit, bring low, bring shame upon, bring to account, bring to book, call to account, camisole, cast… …

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  • 52stocks — Synonyms and related words: Oregon boat, assessable stock, authorized capital stock, bilbo, blue chip, blue chip stock, bond, bonds, borrowed stock, branks, bridle, camisole, capital stock, chains, collar, common stock, convertible preferred… …

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  • 53treadmill — Synonyms and related words: beat, beaten path, branks, broken record, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, chinoiserie, clockwork regularity, constancy, crank, cucking stool, daily grind, daily round, dingdong, dirty work, donkeywork, drone, drudgery,… …

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  • 54triangle — Synonyms and related words: Platonic body, T square, acute angled triangle, adulterous affair, adultery, affair, amour, battery, bell, bells, bones, branks, castanets, celesta, chime, chimes, church bell, clapper, clappers, clover, cowbell, crank …

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  • 55castigatory — n. (Law.) Trebuchet or trebucket, tumbrel or tumbril, ducking stool, cucking stool …

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  • 56trebuchet — n. Tumbrel, castigatory, ducking stool, cucking stool, trebucket …

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  • 57tumbrel — n. 1. Dung cart, muck cart, rough cart. 2. Trebuchet, castigatory, ducking stool, cucking stool …

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  • 58castigatory — An engine used to punish women who had been convicted of being common scolds. It was sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking stool, or cucking stool …

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  • 59castigatory — An engine used to punish women who had been convicted of being common scolds. It was sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking stool, or cucking stool …

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  • 60instrument of punishment — noun an instrument designed and used to punish a condemned person • Hypernyms: ↑instrument • Hyponyms: ↑cangue, ↑cucking stool, ↑ducking stool, ↑instrument of torture, ↑paddle, ↑pillory …

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