Synonyms of cucking stool

6 similar words

Another word for cucking stool is trebuchet. Other synonyms of cucking stool are castigatory, ducking stool, scolding stool, stool of repentance and tumbril.

Synonyms and similar words for cucking stool

castigatoryAn instrument formerly used to punish and correct women whose behavior was considered unseemly; the ducking stool or...
ducking stoolA chair used to punish women, especially scolds, by ducking them in water.
scolding stoolSynonym of cucking stool.
stool of repentanceSynonym of cuttystool (“seat in Scottish churches where offenders sat for public rebuke by the minister”).
trebuchet
tumbril

noun 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.

What is another word for cucking stool?: Cucking stool has 6 synonyms on Word.ws, such as trebuchet, castigatory, ducking stool, scolding stool, stool of repentance and tumbril.
What does cucking stool mean?: Cucking stool means 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.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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