10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUTTY STOOL»
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1
The English dialect dictionary
[They] hae nae right Neither to chair nor cutty stool, Tart-on Poems (1 Bay) 105.
Ayr. lll har'sts, daft bargains, cutty-stools, Bunns Address to Tootharhe, st. 4 ; For
neglect of lessons We were compelled to stand on the cutty stool [in school], ...
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The Weekly Magazine, Or Edinburgh Amusement ...
... There gan a Papi/H the consequence' might have been fatal, Sir. l would not
have insured your 'wig in such a case. It is equally unfair, Sir, to accuse the Cutty
Stool of Popery, in order to get it demolished or out-vered bare. If, upon a fair trial,
...
3
Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. A-Kut
S. CUTTY-STOOL, s. 1. A low stool, S. 2. The stool of repentance, on which
offenders were seated in church, now generally disused, S. " The cutty stool is a
kind of pillory in a church, erected for the punishment of those who have
transgressed, ...
4
The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of ...
CUTTY STOOL CUVIER 16S the animal, as it is liable to putrefy. The dried
material is triturated with a caustic alkali, and then boiled with a solution of the
same. After filtering, the alkali is neutralized by adding an acid, and the
precipitated ...
George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, 1868
5
Travels in Scotland, by an unusual route, with a trip to the ...
Gentlemen, and others of the better sort, that is, in better than ordinary
circumstances, are commonly permitted now, though this was by no means the
case in the stricter and purer times of the kirk, to commute an appearance on the
cutty stool ...
James Hall (of Walthamstow.), 1807
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Dante and the Early Astronomers
Gentlemen, and others of the better sort, that is, in better than ordinary
circumstances, are commonly permitted now, though this was by no means the
case in the stricter and purer times of the kirk, to commute an appearance on the
cutty stool ...
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The new American cyclopaedia: a popular dictionary of ...
CUTTY STOOL, the stool of repentance, formerly employed in the Scotch kirk, for
offenders against the law of chastity. The criminal having been deprived of
church ordinances, and duly taken to task privately for his or her offence, was
required ...
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The new American cyclopædia, ed. by G. Ripley and C.A. Dana
One has been met with of about 6 feet in length. CUTTY STOOL, the stool of
repentance, formerly employed in the Scotch kirk, for offenders against the law of
chastity. The criminal having been deprived of church ordinances, and duly taken
to ...
American cyclopaedia, George Ripley, 1859
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Travels in Scotland, by an Unusual Route: With a Trip to the ...
fornicators, doing pennance on the cutty stool,* from the hilly part of the parish,
very far Communibus . * This is a small gallery, fit to contain about half a dozen of
per. sons, painted black, and on which offenders against chastity are forced to sit,
...
James Hall (of Walthamstow.), 1807
10
The Scotsman's Library; Being a Collection of Anecdotes and ...
A LAIRD ON THE CUTTY-STOOL. A laird being summoned to make his
appearance before the Session, did not deny what he was charged with, but
refused to mount the nutty-stool, though he had no objections to pay a fine. Mr.
Hunter ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CUTTY STOOL»
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Mistresses, muses and not so very happy endings
He had already endured a number of sessions on the kirk's cutty stool for his misdemeanours (and he was no stranger to sitting on that naughty ... «The Caledonian Mercury, May 12»
Three-parent families, a grandfather aged 29: this is the modern world
Cutty stool confessions in Scottish kirks may have titillated the prurient and justified “the unco guid”, but were also a partially effective means of ... «The Caledonian Mercury, Aug 11»
More to Burns than haggis and neeps
He was twice ordered by the local kirk to do public penance, sitting on the notorious 'cutty stool', for fathering illegitimate children. The second ... «Daily Mail, Jan 09»
Dream Leaps
Burns too, although he's from Ayrshire, can't but be invoked: like Hogg, he was called up to sit on the cutty stool in front of the congregation, ... «London Review of Books, Jan 07»
