Stocks are devices used since medieval times for torture, public humiliation, and corporal punishment. The stocks partially immobilized its victims exposing them in public place to the scorn of the local people, who often took to insulting, kicking, spitting and in some cases urinating and defecating on its victims. Form and application The stocks are similar to the pillory and the pranger, as each consists of large, hinged, wooden boards; the difference, however,'s that when a person's placed… (More on Stocks)