ducking-stooln.

Forms: see ducking n.¹ and stool n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ducking n.¹, stool n.

Etymology: < ducking n.¹ + stool n. Compare earlier cucking-stool n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: 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 n.

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1597 Ipswich Chamberlain's Bk. in Clarke Ipswich (1830) 299 To porters for taking down the ‘Ducking Stole’.

1635 Records of Gravesend in Jrnl. Chester Archæol. Soc. (1861) 6 225 For two wheeles and Yeekes for the Ducking-Stool.

1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit xii. 22 Once for all, Mrs. Mynx..remember, I say, that there are Pillories and Ducking-stools.

1777 J. Howard State of Prisons (1780) 84 The bakers at Vienna are punished for frauds by the severity and disgrace of the ducking-stool.

1780 B. West Misc. Poems in Andrews Old Time Punishm. (1890) 13 There stands, my friend, in yonder pool, An engine called the ducking-stool.

1831 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 43/1 In an apartment of the Custom-house at Ipswich, is an original ducking-stool.

1853 T. I. Wharton Digest Cases Pennsylvania §455 The punishment of the ducking stool cannot be inflicted in Pennsylvania.

Derivatives

ducking tumbrel n. a ducking-stool provided with wheels.

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