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† cuck-stool Obs.
Forms: 4–5 cok-, kuk-, 5 cuc-, 5–6 cuk-, coke-, 5–7 cuck-, cook(e-, 6–7 cock-, and stule, stole, stool(e, etc.; also 5 cuxtole.
[See cucking-stool.]
1. = cucking-stool.
1200–15in Whittaker Hist. Richmondshire II. 422 Faciet meliorem finem quem poterit, vel ibit ad Cuckestolam. c1320Poem on Times Edw. II (Percy Soc.) lxxii, The pelery and the cok-stol. c1400Burgh Laws lxiii. in Sc. Stat. I. 345 Gif scho makis evil ale..scho sall gif.. viiis. or..be put on þe kukstule. 1423Leet Bk. Coventry (in Promp. Parv. 107) Cokestowle made apon Chelsmore grene to punysche skolders and chidders, as y⊇ law will. c1440Promp. Parv. 106/2 Cukstole, for flyterys, or schyderys [v.r. cukstolle, cucstool]. 1576in E. Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss., Euery woman that is a scould shall..be sett vpon the cockstoll and be thrise ducked in the water. a1625Fletcher Woman's Prize iii. i, We'll ship 'em out in cuck-stools; there they'll sail..till they discover The happy islands of obedience. 1659in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 229. That a new Cooke Stoole bee made. 1768–9in Kelly Anc. Rec. Leicester 48 Paid Mr. Elliott for a Cuckstool, by order of Hall {pstlg}2. [1884Holland Cheshire Gloss., A street in Macclesfield is called Cuckstool Pit Hill.]
¶2. Erroneously taken for the pillory.
1722–30Ramsay Fables, Twa Cut-purses, The tane..clam the high cookstool, And put his head and baith his hands Through holes where the ill-doer stands. |