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Definition of Ducking stool
1. Noun. An instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water.
Definition of Ducking stool
1. Noun. (historical) A chair used to punish women, ''especially'' scolds, by ducking them in water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ducking Stool
Literary usage of Ducking stool
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1879)
"A wood engraving (from a sketch by myself) of this ducking stool is given at p
318 of the History of Leominster, by the Rev. ..."
2. Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne: Taken from Original Sources by John Ashton (1882)
"... Private detectives — Commercial frauds—' Society for the Reformation of
Manners '—Statistics of their convictions—The pillory—Ducking-stool. ..."
3. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle (1896)
"Johnson said to a gentle Quaker lady: " Madam, we have different modes of
restraining evil — stocks for men, a ducking- stool for women, and a pound for ..."
4. John Howard, and the Prison-world of Europe by William Hepworth Dixon (1850)
"The Ducking-Stool.—The Voice of Truth among the Diplomates.—Confusion Produced.—Castle
of Trieste. —The Great Prison near the Rialto, Venice.—Florence. ..."
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