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Ducking stool is a noun.
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WHAT DOES DUCKING STOOL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

ducking stool

Cucking stool

Ducking-stools and cucking-stools are chairs formerly used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds and dishonest tradesmen in England, Scotland and elsewhere. The cucking-stool was a form of wyuen pine as referred to in Langland's Piers Plowman. They were both instruments of public humiliation and censure, primarily for the offense of scolding or back biting and less often for sexual offenses like bearing an illegitimate child, or prostitution. The stools were technical devices which formed part of the wider method of law enforcement through social humiliation. A common alternative was a court order to recite one’s crimes or sins after Mass or in the market place on market day, or informal action such as a Skimmington ride. They were usually of local manufacture with no standard design. Most were simply chairs into which the victim could be tied and exposed at her door or the site of her offence. Some were on wheels like a tumbrel that could be dragged around the parish. Some were put on poles so that they could be plunged into water, hence "ducking" stool. Stocks or pillories were similarly used for punishment of men or women by humiliation.

Definition of ducking stool in the English dictionary

The definition of ducking stool in the dictionary is a chair or stool used for the punishment of offenders by plunging them into water.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DUCKING STOOL

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duckie
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WORDS THAT END LIKE DUCKING STOOL

bar-stool
birthing stool
camp stool
camping stool
close-stool
cucking stool
cutty stool
faldstool
footstool
frithstool
horsehair toadstool
milking stool
music stool
parrot toadstool
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stepstool
stool
toadstool
tool
verdigris toadstool

Synonyms and antonyms of ducking stool in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «ducking stool» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DUCKING STOOL

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The translations of ducking stool from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ducking stool» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

回避大便
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

heces agachándose
570 millions of speakers

English

ducking stool
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पूर्ण रूप से भीगना स्टूल
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

تتملص البراز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ныряя стул
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

banquinho abaixando
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডুলিং স্টল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tabouret esquive
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menghidu najis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ducking Hocker
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ダッキングスツール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

허리를 구부리고 의자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ducking stool
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

tránh né phân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வாத்து மலம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डबिंग स्टूल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ördek kaşığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sgabello ducking
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

oddawanie stolca
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пірнаючи стілець
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

scufundare scaun
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βουτιά σκαμνί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

koes stoel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

duck pall
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ducking krakk
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DUCKING STOOL»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUCKING STOOL»

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Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a ...
The Ducking Stool Along with the stockade and pillory, the ducking stool stands as a symbol of humiliating public punishments used in colonial days. The ducking stool is unique in that it was to be used almost exclusively on women. They took ...
Dorothy A. Mays, 2004
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The Ducking Stool
"The Ducking Stool" is a gripping murder mystery.
Gloria Morgan, 2009
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Journal
0 00 7'" Fosbrookel states that “ in 1718, during the Mayoralty at Bristol of Edmund Mouutjoy. the ducking-stool on the Weir was used asa cure for scolding, in one particular inveterate instance; but the husband of the lady whose “evil spirit" was ...
Architectural, Archaelogical and Historic Society for the County, City and Neighborhood of Chester, 1864
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The Reliquary and Illustrated Archæologist: A Quarterly ...
21 fossil human skeleton, 227 Landovery, funeral garland, 126 Leicester brank, 69 ducking stool, 148 ~—-— pillory, 219 Leominster, tumbrell, 151 Locko, Justice Gilbert of, 27 Liverpool ducking stool, 157 Love steps of Dorothy Vernon, ...
Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt, John Charles Cox, John Romilly Allen, 1861
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Cyclopædia of literary and scientific anecdote: illustrative ...
THE DUCKING-STOOL. Boswell relates that Dr. Johnson, in a conversation with Mrs. Knowles, the celebrated Quaker lady, said, " Madame, we have different modes of restraining evil— stocks for the men, a ducking-stool for women, and a  ...
William Keddie, 1859
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Woman, Church and State:
The Scold's Bridle, also known as the Witches Bridle and the Brank, was an extremely painful method of torture, although not as absolutely dangerous to life as the Ducking Stool, yet fastened in the mouth, its sharp edges pressing down upon ...
Matilda Joslyn Gage, 2014
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Niles' Weekly Register
"Though this punishment is now disused, a former editor of Jacob's Dictionary (Mr . Morgan,) mentions that he remembers to have seen the remains ot one (a ducking stool) on the estate of a relation of his in fl'ur- vnckshire, consisting of a lon^ ...
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Everyday Life: Colonial Times
Name Date The device shown in the drawing is a ducking stool. lt was used in England to punish women accused of gossip and nagging. When the first settlers came to America, they brought the idea of the ducking stool with them. With a ...
Walter A. Hazen, 1997
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Niles' Weekly Register
198— 20U) be sentenced to be S laced in a certain engine of correction called the tre- acketj-castigatory, or cucking-stool; which in the Saxon language is said to signify the scolding stool; though now it is frequently corrupted into ducking stool ...
Hezekiah Niles, William Ogden Niles, 1829
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Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of ...
"Katherine Sanders, accused by the churchwardens of St. Andrewes for a common scold and slanderer of her neighbours, adjudged to the Ducking-stool." There is an order of the corporation of Shrewsbury, 1669, that " A Ducking-stool be ...
John Brand, sir Henry Ellis, 1842

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DUCKING STOOL»

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Nick Kyrgios's pantomime Wimbledon antics cannot disguise a rare …
There is an echo here, too, of the treatment meted out to the likes of Raheem Sterling by the media, immediately placed on the ducking stool for ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Tour de France 2015: Rohan Dennis claims yellow jersey with time …
... and endured what must have felt like an eternity under the gaze of cameras in what was time trialling's equivalent of a witches' ducking stool. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Crowds enjoy fun in the sun at 50th Brighouse Charity gala
Traditional family fun included a ducking stool, duck race, donkey rides, model train rides and a fairground, alongside all the charity and ... «Huddersfield Examiner, Jun 15»
4
Fond memories of the 'kid whisperer'
“She hated going swimming and hated water on her face but, for these kids, she went into the ducking stool,” laughed Ms Lightbourne. “For her ... «Royal Gazette, Jun 15»
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Celebrations aplenty at Magna Carta event
Other activities include a ducking stool, stocks, spinning demonstrations, Scouts' campfire, knights in armour, birds of prey, food and drink ... «Gazette & Herald, Jun 15»
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Plea for backing from Keighley Gala bosses
Other attractions will include stalls, a ducking stool, tombola, train and donkey rides, sumo wrestling suits from High Adventure in Cowling, face ... «Keighley News, Jun 15»
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Holy nights: camping in a church
It contains fascinating objects such as a ducking stool, for use on “scolds” and “gossips” in the 15th century. Fordwich is a sleepy place today, ... «The Guardian, May 15»
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9 Bizarre Medieval Punishments, From Wearing A Bridle To …
The ducking stool turned up a little later, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — but it's still worth mentioning, because it is both hilarious and horribly ... «Bustle, May 15»
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800 years of the rule of law
Other activities include a ducking stool, stocks, spinning demonstrations, a scout's campfire, knights in armour, birds of prey and food and drink ... «The Northern Echo, May 15»
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​Four-legged friends invited to join the fun at Dovedale Fete
There is also a children's fell race, maypole dancing, a selection of stalls and games, face-painting, a ducking stool and bric-a-brac bargains. «Ashbourne News Telegraph, May 15»

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