Ducking Stool
Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
See "Castigatory."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A stool or chair in which common scolds were formerly tied and plunged into water. The ducking-stool is mentioned in the Domesday Book; it was extensively in use throughout Great Britain from the fifteenth till the beginning of the eighteenth century. Cent. Diet. The last recorded instance in England was in 1809. See Castigatory; Punishment.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
v. Castigatory; Cudking stool.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
See CastTIga Tory.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
See Castigatary, Oucking Stool,
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
_ 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.