WOODEN-Ruff,
a Pillory. He wore the Wooden-ruff; He stood in the Pillory.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
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Wooden Ruff in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).