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Cucking Stool

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

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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