cucking stool

[ kuhk-ing ]

noun

a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was strapped, to be mocked and pelted or ducked in water.

Origin of cucking stool

1175–1225; Middle English cucking stol, literally, defecating stool, equivalent to cucking, present participle of cukken to defecate (<Scandinavian; compare dial Swedish kukka) + stolstool

Words Nearby cucking stool

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How to use cucking stool in a sentence

Two years later, a new cucking-stool was made at the expense of the parish.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. Harper
Scold′er; Scold′ing, railing: a rating; Scold′ing-stool, a cucking-stool.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) | Various
The cucking-stool in the early history of England must not be confounded with the ducking-stool.
Bygone Punishments | William Andrews
Chief among them was the Ducking or Cucking-stool, a scourge for scolds, and once as common in every parish as the stocks.
The Chronicles of Newgate, vol. 1/2 | Arthur Griffiths
Two pounds were paid for a cucking-stool at Leicester in 1768.
Ten Thousand Wonderful Things | Edmund Fillingham King

British Dictionary definitions for cucking stool

cucking stool

/ (ˈkʌkɪŋ) /

noun

history a stool to which suspected witches, scolds, etc, were tied and pelted or ducked into water as a punishment: Compare ducking stool

Origin of cucking stool

C13 cucking stol, literally: defecating chair, from cukken to defecate; compare Old Norse kúkr excrement

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