Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable/Joggis or Jogges

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2716786Dictionary of Phrase and Fable — Joggis or Jogges1868Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Joggis or Jogges. The pillory. Jamieson says, "They punish delinquents, making them stand in 'jogges,' as they call their pillories." (The word is Yoke: Latin, jugum; French, joug; Anglo-Saxon, geoc; our jug, a jail.)

"Staune ane wholl Sabothe daye in ye joggis."—Glen: History of Dumbarton.