Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CUCK'ING-STOOL
CUCK'ING-STOOL, n. [Qu. from choke.]
An engine for punishing scolds and refractory women; also brewers and bakers; called also a tumbrel and a trebuchet. The culprit was seated on the stool and thus immersed in water. – Old Eng. Law.
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