The court found the practice — punishing prisoners by handcuffing them to a metal pole — to be "obvious cruelty." ...

Hey Answer Man! While driving around Springfield I have seen curbside concrete structures with a metal ring on top. I've been told they once were used as hitching posts for horses. Is that right? — ...

Along with being outdated, another reason it’s hard to find a hitching post these days is that most of them were turned in to the U.S. government because of scrap metal drives during time of war.

At the end of our driveway is a cast-iron jockey hitching post the owners assured us was ... the other arm is outstretched and its hand holds a large metal ring. “McKittrich Founding Co. Union ...

TAUNTON — "What is that thing on the sidewalk?" I asked my father. "It's a hitching post. Before there were cars, people used them to tie-up horses," he said. Hitching posts used to be ...