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Castigatory, a certain engine of correction, otherwise called the tre-bucket, tumbrel tymborella, cucking-stool, scolding-stool, ducking-stool, goginstole, and cokestole, corrupted from choaking-stool. It was a punishment provided for scolding women, wherein they were plunged or soused overhead in the water.In Domesday Book it is called Cathedra Stercoralis, and by the Saxons scealfing stole. It was also anciently inflicted on brewers and bakers transgressing the laws, who were ducked in stercore (in stinking water), Jac. LawDict....
Trebucket
Trebucket, a tumbrel, castigatory, or cucking-stool. See CASTIGATORY....
Castigatory
Punitive in order to amendment corrective...
Cucking stool
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...
Ducking-stool
Ducking-stool. See CASTIGATORY....
Objurgatrices
Objurgatrices, scolds, or unquiet women, punished with the cucking-stool. See CASTIGATORY....
Scold
Scold [communis rixatrix, Lat.], a troublesome and angry woman who, by brawling and wranging amongst her neighbours, breaks the public peace, increases discord, and becomes a public nuisance to the neighbourhood, 4 Steph. Com. see CASTIGATORY.A person who regularly breaks the peace by scolding people, increasing discord, and generally being a public nuisance to neighbourhood, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1348....
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