ducking
21ducking — duck·ing || dÊŒkɪŋ n. submersion, immersion, act of wetting something by submerging it dÊŒk n. type of swimming bird; score of zero; sweetheart, love (term of endearment); bending over v. thrust under water, dunk, immerse; crouch, stoop, dodge …
22ducking — duck·ing …
23ducking — noun 1. hunting ducks (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑duck hunting • Hypernyms: ↑hunt, ↑hunting 2. the act of wetting something by submerging it • Syn: ↑submersion, ↑ …
24ducking stool — noun Date: 1597 a seat attached to a plank and formerly used to plunge culprits tied to it into water …
25ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water. [1590 1600] * * * …
26Ducking-stool — Although descriptively apt, this may be a rhyming euphemism and polite form of *cuck stool …
27DUCKING STOOL — a stool or chair in which a scolding woman was confined, and set before her own door to be pelted at, or borne in a tumbrel through the town to be jeered at, or placed at the end of a see saw and ducked in a pool …
28ducking stool — noun historical a chair fastened to the end of a pole, used to plunge offenders into a pond or river as a punishment …
29ducking-stool — n. Trebuchet, tumbrel, castigatory, cucking stool …
30ducking stool — noun (C) a seat on the end of a long pole, used to duck 2 (2) a woman in water as a punishment in the past …