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cutty-stool

cutty-stool is the alternative form of cuttystool.

Meaning of cuttystool

Noun

cuttystool (plural cuttystools)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) A low stool.
    • She's now nae mair Kate but Miss Dalrymple.
      Her auld cutty stool that she used at her wheel,
      Was flung by for her gilded sofa sae gaudy,
      Now she's arrayed in her silk and brocade,
      Ind brags о' her muff's and ruff's wi' ony lady.c. 1840, Kate Dalrymple
  2. (historical) A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.

Forms of cutty-stool

pluralcutty-stools

Questions about cutty-stool

What is cutty-stool the alternative form of?
Cutty-stool is the alternative form of cuttystool.

Words near cutty-stool in the dictionary

  1. cutty
  2. cutty grass
  3. cutty grasses
  4. cutty-pipe
  5. cutty-pipes
  6. cutty-stool
  7. cutty-stools
  8. cuttyhunk
  9. cuttyhunks
  10. cuttystool
  11. cuttystools

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