Castigatory
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds. It is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking-stool or cucking-stool. This barbarous punishment has perhaps never been inflicted in the United States.
12 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 225.