Cucking Stool
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An engine or machine for the punishment of scolds and unquiet women. Called, also, a "trebucket," "tumbrill," and "castigatory." Bakers and brewers were formerly also liable to the same punishment. Being fastened in the machine, they were immersed over head and ears in some pool.
Blount; Coke, 3d Inst. 219; 4 Bl. Comm. 168.