Ducking Stool
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
_ punishment, an instrument used in dipping women in the water as a punishment on conviction of being common scolds. - It is sometimes confounded with tumbrel (q. v-) This barbarous punishment was never in use in Pennsylvania.
12 Serg. & Rawle, 220.