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Ducking-stools and cucking-stools are chairs formerly used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds, and dishonest tradesmen in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. The cucking-stool was a form of wyuen pine (`women`s punishment`) as referred to in Langland`s Piers Plowman (1378). They were both instruments of public humiliation and censure pri...
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• A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool.
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sometimes used for the punishment of scolds, by ducking or 'cucking' them in a pond or river
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Cuck'ing stool` (k...k'...ng st......l`). [ Confer Anglo-Saxon
scealfingstōl , a word of similar meaning, allied to
scealfor a diver, mergus avis; or possibly from French
coquine a hussy, slut, jade, f. of
coquin , Middle English
cokin , a rascal; or confer Icelandic
k...ka to ...
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A cucking-stool was a kind of chair formerly used as an instrument of punishment. Scolds, cheating bakers or brewers, and other petty offenders were placed in it, usually at their own doors, to be hooted at and pelted by the mob. It has been frequently confounded with the ducking stool.
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[
n] - an instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water
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ducking stool noun an instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water
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a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was strapped, to be mocked and pelted or ducked in water.
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