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Categories: Water torture, European instruments of torture, Corporal punishments, Imprisonment and detention of women, Medieval instruments of torture
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cucking stool  ducking stool  Christchurch ducking stool  cucking-stool  ducking-stool
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An instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water WordNet 3.0
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An instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Ducking stools or cucking stools were chairs formerly used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds, and dishonest tradesmen in medieval Europe and elsewhere at later times. Wikipedia
A chair that was used as punishment in Great Britain Wikipedia Disambiguation
chair or commode where offenders are strapped as a form of punishment Wikidata
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. Wiktionary
A chair used to punish women, especially scolds, by ducking them in water. Wiktionary