cutty stool

noun

Scot.

1. a low stool.

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

cutty stool

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of cutty stool¹

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.

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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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