Reverse Dictionary: CUCKING-STOOL

NOUNS
► COCKLE-STOOL a cucking-stool → 1592
► CUCKING-STOOL an instrument of punishment formerly in use for scolds, disorderly women, fraudulent tradespeople, etc., consisting of a chair (sometimes in the form of a close-stool), in which the offender was fastened and exposed to the jeers of the bystanders, or conveyed to a pond or river and ducked → 1308 obs.
► CUCKLE-STOOL a cucking-stool → 1592

VERBS
► CUCK to punish by setting in the cucking-stool → 1611 obs.