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Definition of Cucking stool
1. Noun. An instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cucking Stool
Literary usage of Cucking stool
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1901)
"THE cucking-stool was an engine invented for the punishment of scolds and unquiet
women, by ducking them in the water, after having placed them in a stool ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The cucking-stool is the ... It one cucking-stool was /or each scold, notd."
foor й-мя dim. ... cuckingstool ..."
3. Lives of the Queens of England: from the Norman conquest by Agnes Strickland (1848)
"... vincial town to the cucking-stool, it might have been thought tha derision
would have disarmed its terrors for ever. Such would have been the case, ..."
4. England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social by William Connor Sydney (1891)
"... and funeral ceremonies—Obsolete social condition of their inhabitants—Local
punishments—The tumbril, cucking-stool, and ' Drunkard's Cloak'—The brank, ..."
5. Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"THE cucking-stool was an engine devised for the punishment of scolds and unquiet
women, by ducking them in the water; the offenders being placed in a stool ..."
6. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"... the quills are blackish gray, the inner webs with transverse white bars ; the
tail is darker, approaching to black at the end, and cucking stool, ..."
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