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cutty stool

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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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Origin of cutty stool

First recorded in 1765–75
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Historical Examples

  • "If you and Dolly come over to us on Monday, you may put me on the cutty-stool if you like afterwards;" and with that he was gone.

    Tony Butler

    Charles James Lever

  • In Scotland the ordeals of sitting on the repentance-stool or cutty-stool were most frequent.

British Dictionary definitions for cutty stool

cutty stool

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