ducking stool
a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
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How to use ducking stool in a sentence
This ducking stool was intended for the special benefit of vixens and scolding wives.
Our Churches and Chapels | AtticusHe conceived the grotesque idea that the ducking-stool would be about the thing.
The Cassowary | Stanley WaterlooIt was the law, made and provided, that a ducking-stool should be set up "neere the court-house in every county."
Virginia: The Old Dominion | Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle HutchinsWe had not known that it was a place of such associations as the words "Ducking-stool Point" indicated.
Virginia: The Old Dominion | Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle HutchinsHe hath much too wholesome a regard for the ducking-stool to cause further mischief.
Contemporary One-Act Plays | Sir James M. Barrie
British Dictionary definitions for ducking stool
history a chair or stool used for the punishment of offenders by plunging them into water
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