Cucking Stool - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cucking stoolCucking 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...
Castigatory
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....
Objurgatrices
Objurgatrices, scolds, or unquiet women, punished with the cucking-stool. See CASTIGATORY....
Trebucket
Trebucket, a tumbrel, castigatory, or cucking-stool. See CASTIGATORY....
Cucking-Stoll
Cucking-Stoll. a chair on which females in ancient times for certain offences, as for being 'Common scolds' were fastened and ducked in a pond, Steph. Com., bk. Vi. Ch. xi...
Ducking-stool
Ducking-stool. See CASTIGATORY....
Cack
To ease the body by stool to go to stool...
Faldstool
A folding stool or portable seat made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church...
Bench
A long seat differing from a stool in its greater length...
Bishop stool
A bishops seat or see...
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