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Cucking Stool

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Noun

1. cucking stool, ducking stool

an instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cucking Stool

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stool in which suspected witches were tested
noun
history
a stool to which suspected witches, scolds, etc, were tied and pelted or ducked into water as a punishment
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Cucking Stool

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Obsolete
a chair to which a person was fastened and exposed to public ridicule, or sometimes ducked in water, as a punishment

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cucking Stool

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n.
A chair formerly used to punish offenders, in which a person was tied and exposed to public derision or ducked in water.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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