Cucking-Stool
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
An engine of correction for common scolds, which in the Saxon Janguage is said to signify the scoldingstool, though now it is frequently corrupted into ducking-stool, because the judgment was that, when the woman was placed therein, she should be plunged in the water for her punishment. It was also variously ealled a “trebucket,” “tumbrel,” or “eastigatory.”
38 Inst. 219; 4 Bl. Comm, 169; Brown.