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ducking stools

ducking stools is the plural of ducking stool.

Meaning of ducking stool

Noun

ducking stool (plural ducking stools)

  1. (historical) A chair used to punish women, especially scolds, by ducking them in water.
    • Near the pond was the ducking-stool where many a village scold had her tongue temporarily stilled.1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379

Questions about ducking stools

What is ducking stools the plural of?
Ducking stools is the plural of ducking stool.

Words near ducking stools in the dictionary

  1. ducking coats
  2. ducking down
  3. ducking off
  4. ducking out
  5. ducking stool
  6. ducking stools
  7. duckings
  8. duckish
  9. duckism
  10. duckkind
  11. duckless

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