Tumbrel - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: tumbrelTumbrel
Tumbrel, a ducking-stool used for the punishment of scolds; a dung-cart....
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...
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....
Trebucket
Trebucket, a tumbrel, castigatory, or cucking-stool. See CASTIGATORY....
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