cucking stool

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ducking stool trebuchet framework triangle crank whipping treadmill ducking pillory castigatory tumbril stocks instrument of punishment stool of repentance scolding stool
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Hypernyms

instrument of punishment

Close letter words and terms

cuckery Cuckfield cuckhold Cuckistan cucklebur cuckleburr