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cucking-stool Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈkʌkɪŋ-stuːl|
Forms: 4 coking-, 4– cucking-, 6 cukkyng-, cuckyng-, cooking-; also (by association with cuckquean) 6 coqueen-, 7 cockqueane-stool.
[app. f. cuck v.1 + stool; cf. cuck-stool. Called in the Chester Domesday (I. 262 b) cathedra stercoris (Way, Promp. Parv.). So named from one of its common forms, which was perhaps the original.]
An instrument of punishment formerly in use for scolds, disorderly women, fraudulent tradespeople, etc., consisting of a chair (sometimes in the form of a close-stool), in which the offender was fastened and exposed to the jeers of the bystanders, or conveyed to a pond or river and ducked.
For full account of its history, see Dr. T. N. Brushfield's Obsolete Punishments, II. The Cucking Stool, in Jrnl. of Archit., Archæol., & Hist. Soc. of Chester, vi. 203 (1857–9).
[1215–70in Borlase Hist. Cornwall I. 303 (transl.) Brawling women..undergo the punishment of the ‘Coking Stole’.] c1308Sat. People Kildare 100 in E.E.P. (1862) 155 Brewesters..beþ i-war of þe coking-stole, þe lak is dep and hori. c1325Poem Times Edw. II, 477 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 345 The pilory and the cucking-stol beth i-mad for noht. 1511–2Act 3 Hen. VIII, c. 6 §1 To be sett upon the pillorie or the Cukkyngstole Man or Woman as the case shall requyre. 1534in Boys Coll. Hist. Sandwich 684 [Two women] to be placed in the coqueen stool, and dipped to the chin. 1577Harrison England ii. xi. (1877) i. 228 Scolds are ducked upon cuckingstooles in the water. 1633in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1721) III. ii. II. App. 57 She was committed..to be duck'd in a Cucking-Stool at Holborn-Dike. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 217 When Pudding-Wives were launcht in cockquean Stools For falling foul on Oyster-women's Schools. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 169 She..shall..be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket, castigatory, or cucking stool..now it is frequently corrupted into ducking stool. 1825Scott Betrothed ix, Beware the cucking-stool. |