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单词 cutty stool
释义

cutty stool


noun Scot.

a low stool.
(formerly) a seat in churches where offenders against chastity, or other delinquents, received public rebuke.

Origin of cutty stool

First recorded in 1765–75

Words nearby cutty stool

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Example sentences from the Web for cutty stool

  • In Scotland the ordeals of sitting on the repentance-stool or cutty-stool were most frequent.

    Curious Punishments of Bygone Days|Alice Morse Earle
  • "If you and Dolly come over to us on Monday, you may put me on the cutty-stool if you like afterwards;" and with that he was gone.

    Tony Butler|Charles James Lever

British Dictionary definitions for cutty stool

cutty stool

noun

(formerly, in Scotland) the church seat on which an unchaste person sat while being harangued by the minister
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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