单词 | cuck-stool |
释义 | † cuck-stooln. Obsolete. 1. = cucking-stool n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > stool or ducking-stool cuck-stool1200 thewc1273 cucking-stoolc1308 stoolc1308 pining-stoolc1400 scolding stool1474 tumbrila1513 cuckle-stool1592 ducking-stool1597 gum-stool1623 trebucheta1641 gumble-stool1653 gogingstool1679 ducking tumbrel1688 1200–15 in Whittaker Hist. Richmondshire II. 422 Faciet meliorem finem quem poterit, vel ibit ad Cuckestolam. c1320 Poem on Times Edw. II (Percy Soc.) lxxii The pelery and the cok-stol. a1400 in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 345 Gif scho makis evil ale..scho sall gif.. viiis. or..be put on þe kukstule. 1423 Leet Bk. Coventry in Promptorium Parvulorum 107 Cokestowle made apon Chelsmore grene to punysche skolders and chidders, as ye law will. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 106/2 Cukstole, for flyterys, or schyderys [v.r. cukstolle, cucstool]. 1576 in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Euery woman that is a scould shall..be sett vpon the cockstoll and be thrise ducked in the water. a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nnnnn4v/1 We'l ship 'em out in Cuck-stooles, there they'l saile..till they discover The happy Islands of obedience. 1659 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 229. That a new Cooke Stoole bee made. 1768–9 in Kelly Anc. Rec. Leicester 48 Paid Mr. Elliott for a Cuckstool, by order of Hall £2. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) A street in Macclesfield is called Cuckstool Pit Hill.] 2. Erroneously taken for the pillory. ΚΠ 1722–30 A. Ramsay Twa Cut-purses in Fables & Tales The tane..clam the high cookstool, And put his head and baith his hands Through holes where the ill-doer stands. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1200 |
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