cangue

We must at least get him out of that cangue!"

The prisoner was confined in the cangue for a period of time as a punishment.

He was subjected to the cangue (a wooden torture collar) and then the cage.

To be awake and not ignorant is to wear chains and shoulder a cangue.

Often the cangue was large enough that the prisoner required assistance to eat or drink, as his hands could not reach his own mouth.

They bound his hands and put the heavy pseudowood collar that was the cangue over his head.

Alp dived for him, cracking the heavy cangue into his head and knocking the man out in an unusual fashion: by hand.

Pigneau was put into a cangue, a wooden and iron frame fastened around his limbs weighing eight pounds.

The criminal might be made to wear a cangue, a huge wooden collar that made it nearly impossible to eat or even to shoo away flies.

In 1795, Jean-Marie Dayot stranded his ship, was condemned for negligence and put to the cangue.

He notarized all real estate deeds on a commission basis and collected the land tax, as well as overseeing minor punishment such as the cangue.

For serious offences, use is made of the pillory as well as of the cangue, which latter is a heavy square wooden board round the neck.

Although there are many different forms, a typical cangue would consist of a large, heavy flat board with a hole in the center large enough for a person's neck.

It was similar to the pillory used for punishment in the West, except that the board of the cangue was not fixed to a base, and had to be carried around by the prisoner.

It was Chilaun the Suldu-the son of Chief Sorqan-Shira who had rescued Alp from Targ's cangue so many days ago and swore to have an accounting for the humiliation Targ had brought upon them then.

During the early colonisation of Hong Kong, prisoners in Victoria Prison were forced to parade in public, were often beaten with a cane, and their arms locked with a cangue on which their name and crimes-committed were penned.