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ˈducking-stool
A sort of chair at the end of an oscillating plank, in which disorderly women, scolds, or dishonest tradesmen, were tied and ducked or plunged in water, as a punishment. See cucking-stool. So ducking tumbrel, a ducking-stool provided with wheels.
1597Ipswich Chamberlain's Bk. in Clarke Ipswich (1830) 299 To porters for taking down the ‘Ducking Stole’. 1635Records of Gravesend in Jrnl. Chester Archæol. Soc. (1861) VI. 225 For two wheeles and Yeekes for the Ducking-Stool. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. viii. 351 A Cuck-stool, or a Ducking Tumbrel. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull i. xii, Once for all, Mrs. Mynx..remember, I say, that there are pillories and ducking-stools. 1777Howard Prisons Eng. (1780) 84 The bakers at Vienna are punished for frauds by the severity and disgrace of the ducking-stool. 1780B. West Misc. Poems in Andrews Old Time Punishm. (1890) 13 There stands, my friend, in yonder pool, An engine called the ducking-stool. 1831Gentl. Mag. Jan. 43/1 In an apartment of the Custom-house at Ipswich, is an original ducking-stool. 1853Wharton Pa. Digest §455 The punishment of the ducking stool cannot be inflicted in Pennsylvania. |