Castigatory
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[from Lat. castigare, to correct.] In old English law. An engine of correction for the punishn^^nt of scolds or wiquiet women; otherwise called the cucking stool, trebucket, and tumbrel, 4 Bl, Own, 168, 169. See Caching stool