cutty stool

American  

noun

Scot.

1. a low stool.

2. (formerly) a seat in churches where offenders against chastity, or other delinquents, received public rebuke.

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cutty stool British  

noun

1. (formerly, in Scotland) the church seat on which an unchaste person sat while being harangued by the minister

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Etymology

Origin of cutty stool

First recorded in 1765–75

Example Sentences

Somebody may come to kame your hair wi' a cutty stool.

From Project Gutenberg

This was performed by the guilty person standing up before the congregation on a raised platform, called the cutty stool, and receiving a rebuke.

From Project Gutenberg

The rebuke on the cutty stool, like the penance in a white sheet in England, went out of use, and the circumstance is now a matter of "reminiscence."

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