cucking stool (English, noun)
expansion: cucking stool (plural cucking stools)
Senses:
glosses: A kind of chair to which a person (such as a scold or dishonest tradesman) was fastened in order to be punished and socially humiliated, usually by being pelted and hooted at by a mob in front of their own house, but sometimes being taken to water and ducked.
tags: historical
Forms:
form: cucking stools
tags: plural