cutty stool
a low stool.
(formerly) a seat in churches where offenders against chastity, or other delinquents, received public rebuke.
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How to use cutty stool in a sentence
Are there nae cutty-stool businesses—are there nae marriages going on just now, Isaac?
The Life of Mansie Wauch | David Macbeth Moir"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 LeverIn Scotland the ordeals of sitting on the repentance-stool or cutty-stool were most frequent.
Curious Punishments of Bygone Days | Alice Morse Earle
British Dictionary definitions for cutty stool
(formerly, in Scotland) the church seat on which an unchaste person sat while being harangued by the minister
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