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pining stool

noun

Definitions

  1. A cucking stool.

    • To punyschen on pillories · and pynynge stoles / Brewesteres and bakesteres · bocheres and cokes.
    • 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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