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cucking stools

cucking stools is the plural of cucking stool.

Meaning of cucking stool

Noun

cucking stool (plural cucking stools)

  1. (historical) A kind of chair to which a person (such as a scold or dishonest tradesman) was fastened in order to be punished and socially humiliated, usually by being pelted and hooted at by a mob in front of their own house, but sometimes being taken to water and ducked.
    • […] while in the same breath the Fleming exclaimed, “Beware the cucking-stool, Dame Scant o' Grace,” while he conducted the noble youth across the court.1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume I (The Betrothed), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co....

Questions about cucking stools

What is cucking stools the plural of?
Cucking stools is the plural of cucking stool.

Words near cucking stools in the dictionary

  1. cuckhold
  2. cuckholds
  3. cuckies
  4. cucking
  5. cucking stool
  6. cucking stools
  7. Cuckistan
  8. cucklebur
  9. cuckleburr
  10. cuckleburrs
  11. cuckleburs

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