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ducking stool

noun

  1. a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.


ducking stool

noun

  1. history a chair or stool used for the punishment of offenders by plunging them into water
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ducking stool1

First recorded in 1590–1600
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Example Sentences

This ducking stool was intended for the special benefit of vixens and scolding wives.

He conceived the grotesque idea that the ducking-stool would be about the thing.

It was the law, made and provided, that a ducking-stool should be set up "neere the court-house in every county."

We had not known that it was a place of such associations as the words "Ducking-stool Point" indicated.

He hath much too wholesome a regard for the ducking-stool to cause further mischief.

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