さらし台だい

noun

pillory; stocks; gibbet

Historical term for a wooden framework used to publicly restrain and humiliate offenders, typically by locking the head and hands.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、罪ざい人にんをさらし台だいにかけて見みせしめにすることがあった。

  In the Edo period, criminals were sometimes put in the pillory as a public example.