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Also an old foot-straightening device

• 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

  What are my agony and indignation next day, when I hear a flying rumour that the Misses Nettingall have stood Miss Shepherd in the stocks for turning in her toes!

The Wordsworth Classics edition has an endnote defining this as an "apparatus for straightening the feet". (Miss Shepherd in the passage above is a young schoolgirl.) Can anyone find any other citations? Equinox ◑ 18:03, 23 May 2022 (UTC)