- ducking-stools and cucking-stools are
chairs formerly used for
punishment of
disorderly women,
scolds and
dishonest tradesmen in
england - the
cucking stool,
according to blackstone,
eventually became known as a
ducking stool by folk
etymology .
other writers disagree with
-
punishments included the
imposition of the
cucking stool ,
pillory ,
jougs , a shrew's
fiddle , or a scold's
bridle . see also
-
torture device ,
cucking stool , the
parlour game ,
stool of
repentance (game the
stool of
repentance in
presbyterian polity ,
mostly in
- the more
common usage , duck (disambiguation) , the
ducking stool, a
public humiliation device ,
cucking stool ducking is an
audio effect - see also :
cucking stool (ducking stool) duck and
cover (disambiguation) duck foot (disambiguation) duct (disambiguation)
rubber duck
-
north of the city
known as “norwich over the
water ” this
bridge was also the site of a
cucking stool for
ducking lawbreakers and undesirables.
- by the
leges quatuor burgorum ,
female brewsters making bad ale were to
forfeit eightpence and be put on the cucking-stool , and were to
- the two
wheels allowed the cart to be
tilted to more
easily discharge its load the word is also used as a name for the cucking-stool .
- the
judas cradle was a tall thin
stool shaped device with a
metal or dunking: image:cucking stool.
punishing a
common scold in the
dunking stool .
