"cucking stool" meaning in English

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          "text": "[…] while in the same breath the Fleming exclaimed, “Beware the cucking-stool, Dame Scant o' Grace,” while he conducted the noble youth across the court.",
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          "text": "Whenever officers resorted to corporal punishment of brewers, then, it seems that cucking-stools were sometimes reserved for brewsters (as well as for other female offenders). Yet if the cucking-stool was more a female punishment and the pillory (or other fates) more often reserved for men, the distinctions in the middle ages were still fluid, and their significance is hard to gauge.",
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          "text": "Orders to build cucking stools riddle local records.¹⁴ In Calne in 1675 the view of the hundred ordered the Lord of Calne to build a stool or face a forty-shilling fine.¹⁵ In 1684 the view raised the fine to thirty pounds, but by 1687 Calne still lacked a cucking stool.",
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