Pillory way

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  • the billowy way: the sea
  • the Pillory: in medieval Dublin, the place of public punishment at the junction of Fishamble Street and Saint Werburgh’s Street
  • pillar-box: postbox, which was supposedly invented in Ireland by the novelist Anthony Trollope → cf. post to us in prapsposterus