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cucking stool

 

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Noun cucking stool has 1 sense
  1. cucking stool, ducking stool - an instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water
    --1 is a kind of instrument of punishment

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Cucking Stool

Description:

A cucking stool is a historical instrument of punishment and public humiliation, typically used to punish women accused of various offenses. Also known as a scold's bridle or a ducking stool, it was a chair or a stool attached to a long pole or lever, and it was used to forcibly dip the accused into water, or to parade them through the streets as a form of humiliating punishment.

Sample Sentences:

1. The cucking stool was a common method of punishment during medieval times.

2. The accused woman was tied to the cucking stool and ducked in the river as a form of public humiliation.

3. The villagers gathered to watch the scold being paraded through the streets sitting on the cucking stool.

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