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cutty stool
noun
, Scot.
- a low stool.
- (formerly) a seat in churches where offenders against chastity, or other delinquents, received public rebuke.
cutty stool
noun
- (formerly, in Scotland) the church seat on which an unchaste person sat while being harangued by the minister
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cutty stool1
First recorded in 1765–75
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Example Sentences
Are there nae cutty-stool businesses—are there nae marriages going on just now, Isaac?
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"If you and Dolly come over to us on Monday, you may put me on the cutty-stool if you like afterwards;" and with that he was gone.
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In Scotland the ordeals of sitting on the repentance-stool or cutty-stool were most frequent.
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