» "Whipping Post" redirects here. For The Allman Brothers Band song, see Whipping Post (song). Distinguish from pylorus.:For the College of William & Mary satirical magazine, see The Pillory (magazine). The pillory was a device used in punishment by public humiliation and often additional, sometimes lethal, physical abuse. The word is documented in English since 1274 (attested in Anglo-Latin from c.1189), and stems from Old French pellori (1168; modern French pilori, see below), itself from Med… (More on Pillory)