Meanings
nounpining stool (plural pining stools)
plural pining stools
- archaichistoricalA cucking stool.
To punyschen on pillories · and pynynge stoles / Brewesteres and bakesteres · bocheres and cokes.
c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III1 more example
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 […].
2004, Gordon Campbell, Renaissance Art and Architecture, page 55
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