cutty-stooln.
/ˈkʌtɪstuːl/, U.S. /ˈkədiˌstul/, Scottish English /ˈkʌtɪstul/ Scottish.
1. A low stool.
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1820 W. Scott Monastery I. iv. 147 Hitching her seat of honour..a little nearer to the cuttie-stool on which Tibb was seated.
1832–53 Whistle-Binkie 3rd Ser. (Sc. Songs) 120 I grieve to see ye sit Sae laigh upon your cutty stool In sic a dorty fit!
2. Formerly, in Scotland, a particular seat in a church, where offenders against chastity, or other delinquents, had to sit during the time of divine service and receive a public rebuke from the minister; the stool of repentance. Also figurative.
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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > [noun] > of repentance
penitent form1563
repenting stool1567
stool of repentance1581
place of repentance1582
repentance stool1591
repentance seat1771
cutty-stoola1774
Mercy seat1818
anxious seat1827
anxious bench1832
mourner's bench1834
mourner's seat1845
moaner's bench1929
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 162 Marion, for a bastart son, Upo' the cutty-stool was forc'd to ride.
1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 251 In most of the kirks there is a small gallery..painted black, placed in an elevated situation, near the roof of the church, which they call the cutty-stool, and on which offenders against chastity are forced to sit.
1818 J. Keats Life & Lett. I. 170 If he does I must sit on the cutty-stool all next winter.
1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold I. viii. 118 To sit in penance on the cutty-stool.
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