"pining stool" meaning in All languages combined

See pining stool on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: pining stools [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pining stool (plural pining stools)
  1. (now rare, historical) A cucking stool. Tags: archaic, historical
    Sense id: en-pining_stool-en-noun-8SB1PmMm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pining stools",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pining stool (plural pining stools)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:",
          "text": "To punyschen on pillories · and pynynge stoles / Brewesteres and bakesteres · bocheres and cokes.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Gordon Campbell, Renaissance Art and Architecture, page 55:",
          "text": "The cucking stool or pining stool (known from the eighteenth century as the ducking stool) was used to duck scolds and disorderly women into ponds and rivers […].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cucking stool."
      ],
      "id": "en-pining_stool-en-noun-8SB1PmMm",
      "links": [
        [
          "cucking stool",
          "cucking stool"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare, historical) A cucking stool."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pining stool"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pining stools",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pining stool (plural pining stools)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:",
          "text": "To punyschen on pillories · and pynynge stoles / Brewesteres and bakesteres · bocheres and cokes.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Gordon Campbell, Renaissance Art and Architecture, page 55:",
          "text": "The cucking stool or pining stool (known from the eighteenth century as the ducking stool) was used to duck scolds and disorderly women into ponds and rivers […].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cucking stool."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cucking stool",
          "cucking stool"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare, historical) A cucking stool."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pining stool"
}

Download raw JSONL data for pining stool meaning in All languages combined (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.