= cucking-stool, n.

Name of an instrument or apparatus of punishment ordained, instead of the pillory, for women; often identified with the cucking-stool, n. Also in…

An instrument of punishment formerly in use for scolds, disorderly women, fraudulent tradespeople, etc., consisting of a chair (sometimes in the…

A seat for an offender. See cucking-stool, n., cutty-stool, n., pining-stool n. at pining, n. compounds, stool of repentance, n.

a stool used for public punishment, a cucking-stool.

a cucking stool.

A device for punishment comprising a wooden chair on two wheels, having one or more long shafts fixed to the axle, into which an offender was…

= cucking-stool, n.

A sort of chair at the end of an oscillating plank, in which disorderly women, scolds, or dishonest tradesmen, were tied and ducked or plunged in…

An instrument of punishment, = cucking-stool, n.

A cucking-stool.

a ducking-stool provided with wheels.