"pining stool" meaning in English

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          "ref": "c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:",
          "text": "To punyschen on pillories · and pynynge stoles / Brewesteres and bakesteres · bocheres and cokes.",
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          "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 […].",
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        "A cucking stool."
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        "(now rare, historical) A cucking stool."
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