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ducking stool

noun

ducking stool

noun
1

Historical A chair used to punish women, especially scolds, by ducking them in water.

  • Near the pond was the ducking-stool where many a village scold had her tongue temporarily stilled.1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379:

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