cucking stools

A form of cucking stool — 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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noun
  1. pluralplural of cucking stool
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