pining stool

noun

noun

Archaic, Historical A cucking stool.

To punyschen on pillories · and pynynge stoles / Brewesteres and bakesteres · bocheres and cokes.c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:
The cucking stool or pining stool (known from the eighteenth century as the ducking stool) was used to duck scolds and disorderly women into ponds and rivers […].2004, Gordon Campbell, Renaissance Art and Architecture, page 55:

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