| Cucking stool (cucking stool) |
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| (k(?)k"(?)ng st(?)(?)l`). [Cf. AS.
scealfingst l, a word of similar meaning, allied to
scealfor a diver, mergus avis; or possibly from F.
coquine a hussy, slut, jade, f. of coquin, OE.
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| Cuck"ing stool` |
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A kind of chair formerly used for
punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them
in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted
at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked;
-- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a
trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking
stool.
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