"cucking stool" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From about 1215. Origin uncertain. The variant ducking stool is a later (from 1597) corruption.",
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          "ref": "1996, Judith M. Bennett, Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600, Oxford University Press, page 105",
          "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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          "ref": "2016, Brian Weiser, “Chapter 29: The Shamings of Falstaff”, in R. Malcolm Smuts, editor, The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare, Oxford University Press, page 515",
          "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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        "A kind of chair to which a person (such as a scold or dishonest tradesman) was fastened in order to be punished and socially humiliated, usually by being pelted and hooted at by a mob in front of their own house, but sometimes being taken to water and ducked."
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        "(historical) A kind of chair to which a person (such as a scold or dishonest tradesman) was fastened in order to be punished and socially humiliated, usually by being pelted and hooted at by a mob in front of their own house, but sometimes being taken to water and ducked."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "pillory"
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        {
          "word": "stocks"
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          "sense": "stool used for punishment",
          "word": "castigatory"
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          "sense": "stool used for punishment",
          "word": "ducking stool"
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          "sense": "stool used for punishment",
          "word": "scolding stool"
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        {
          "sense": "stool used for punishment",
          "word": "stool of repentance"
        },
        {
          "sense": "stool used for punishment",
          "word": "trebuchet"
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          "sense": "stool used for punishment",
          "word": "tumbril"
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  "etymology_text": "From about 1215. Origin uncertain. The variant ducking stool is a later (from 1597) corruption.",
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