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 cuck·ing stool /ˈkʌkɪŋ-/

 Cuck·ing stool  A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool.
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 cucking stool
      n : an instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which
          offenders were ducked in water [syn: ducking stool]