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cutty stool

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noun Scot.

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

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Nearby words

cuttlebone, cuttlefish, cutty, cutty grass, cutty sark, cutty stool, cuttyhunk, cutup, cutware, cutwater, cutwork

Origin of cutty stool

First recorded in 1765–75
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Examples from the Web for cutty stool

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

    Curious Punishments of Bygone Days|Alice Morse Earle

  • "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

British Dictionary definitions for cutty stool

cutty stool

noun

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