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

by Ebenezer 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.