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Definition of ducking stool in English: ducking stoolnoun historical A chair fastened to the end of a pole, used formerly to plunge offenders into a pond or river as a punishment. Example sentencesExamples - And in this pool of water stood the ducking stool, where women received a drenching for their ‘crimes’ in days gone by.
- The village stocks and the ducking stool provided a suitable deterrent for the twerp who insisted on invading our space and time.
- Then the apparatus of power comprised stocks, ducking stools, branding irons and the omnipresent shadow of the gallows.
- We will bring back the ducking stool for litter louts!
- The other word I've been pondering recently is cucking-stool, the original form of what later became called a ducking stool.
Definition of ducking stool in US English: ducking stoolnounˈdəkiNG ˌsto͞ol historical A chair fastened to the end of a pole, used formerly to plunge offenders into a pond or river as a punishment. Example sentencesExamples - The village stocks and the ducking stool provided a suitable deterrent for the twerp who insisted on invading our space and time.
- The other word I've been pondering recently is cucking-stool, the original form of what later became called a ducking stool.
- Then the apparatus of power comprised stocks, ducking stools, branding irons and the omnipresent shadow of the gallows.
- We will bring back the ducking stool for litter louts!
- And in this pool of water stood the ducking stool, where women received a drenching for their ‘crimes’ in days gone by.
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