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pining stool

pining stool noun: a cucking stool.

Noun

pining stool (plural pining stools)

  1. (archaic, historical) A cucking stool.
    • To punyschen on pillories · and pynynge stoles / Brewesteres and bakesteres · bocheres and cokes.c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III
    • The cucking stool or pining stool (known from the eighteenth century as the ducking stool) was used to duck scolds and disorderly women into ponds and rivers […].2004, Gordon Campbell, Renaissance Art and Architecture, page 55

Forms of pining stool

pluralpining stools

Questions about pining stool

What does pining stool mean?
Pining stool means a cucking stool.
What part of speech is pining stool?
Pining stool is a noun.
What is the plural of pining stool?
The plural of pining stool is pining stools.

Words near pining stool in the dictionary

  1. Pinillas
  2. pinin
  3. Pininfarina
  4. pining
  5. pining away
  6. pining stool
  7. pining stools
  8. piningly
  9. pinings
  10. pinion
  11. pinion wire

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