subs. (old cant).—The stocks. [The suffix ‘MANS’ is common; Cf., LIGHTMANS, DARKMANS, ROUGHMANS, etc.]
1567. HARMAN, A Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors (1814), p. 66. The HARMANS, the stockes.
1610. ROWLANDS, Martin Mark-all, p. 39 [Hunterian Club’s Reprint, 1874]. HARMONS the stockes.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v.
1714. Memoirs of John Hall (4 ed.), p. 12, s.v.
1725. A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
