Cucking stool
Cucking stool A common scold gets her comeuppance in the ducking stool. Ducking-stools and cucking-stools are chairs formerly ... and dishonest tradesmen. Cucking-stools The cucking-stool or Stool of Repentance, is of ...
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Common scold
... scold Punishing a common scold in the ducking stool. In the common law of crime in ... correction called the trebucket, castigatory, or cucking stool, which in the Saxon language signifies the scolding stool; though now it is frequently corrupted into ducking stool, because the residue of the ...
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Talk:Common scold
Talk:Common scold Cucking Stool/Ducking Stool Which is the preferred usage, and are ... com/Database/burning/cuckstl.html quotes : Cucking Stool This is sometimes confounded with the ducking-stool, but was entirely dissimilar. Its ...
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Waterboarding
... 1556. Punishing a common scold in the ducking stool. There are several different varieties of interrogation ... a trial by ordeal called "dunking" or "ducking," supposed witches were immersed into a vat ...
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User:Itai/old
... h2g2/alabaster/A185104] ?) * [[Vinalia Rustica]] * [[Prevenient grace]] * [[Ducking stool]] * [[Cucking stool]] * [[Loitering]]/[[Loitering with intent]] (also possibly expand ...
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Ordnance Island, Bermuda
... once situated here. The original islands of Ducking Stool, Frazer's and Gallows were used, in ...
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Mears Ashby
... the ignomony of being dipped (on a ducking-stool); when she immediately sunk to the bottom ...
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Dunking
... common scold gets her comeuppance in the ducking stool. For other uses, see Dunking (disambiguation). Dunking ...
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Babes in Toyland (1934 film)
... Ollie had suffered the humiliation of the ducking stool (Stannie was to undergo this too, then ...
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Folk etymology
... architecture) Brass monkey Brent Goose Caesarean section Ducking stool Gringo Jerusalem artichoke Poll tax Rake-hell ...
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