> I'm not clear about the "pillary" thing you suggest. It doesn't seem to
> be a valid word

I believe the correct term in this context is 'pillory', generally used as 
term of public abuse when a person was put in stocks on the village green, 
and abused by the rest of the village for whatever wrong they had done. 

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