ducking-stool
11Ducking-stool — Although descriptively apt, this may be a rhyming euphemism and polite form of *cuck stool …
12DUCKING 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 …
13ducking-stool — n. Trebuchet, tumbrel, castigatory, cucking stool …
14ducking stool — duck′ing stool n. a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water …
15ducking-stool — a stool placed over a river in which scolding women are seated and ducked. North …
16ducking stool — noun an instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water • Syn: ↑cucking stool • Hypernyms: ↑instrument of punishment …
17ducking stool — noun Date: 1597 a seat attached to a plank and formerly used to plunge culprits tied to it into water …
18ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water. [1590 1600] * * * …
19ducking stool — noun historical a chair fastened to the end of a pole, used to plunge offenders into a pond or river as a punishment …
20ducking 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 …
