 | Charles MacFarlane - Anecdotes - 1836 - 340 pages
...for beasts." In early times it was called the cucking-stool. Brand describes it as an engine invented for the punishment of scolds and unquiet women, by...were immerged in some muddy or stinking pond. Blount thought this last name a corruption of duckingstool ; and another antiquary guessed that choking-stool... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 306 pages
...JOHNSON. See Boswell's Life of Johnson, vol. iii. p. 313. THE Cucking-stool was an engine invented for the punishment of scolds and unquiet women, by...of a long pole, by which they were immerged in some mnddy or stinking pond. Blount tells us that some think it a corruption from Ducking-stool, (s) but... | |
 | John Stoughton - Windsor (Berkshire, England) History - 1844 - 266 pages
...interruption from the terrors of intestine strife. So little are * " The racking stool was an engine invented for the punishment of scolds and unquiet women, by...stinking pond. Blount tells us, that some think it a corruption from ducking stool, but that others derive it from choaking stool. Though of the most... | |
 | Thomas Nash, John Lyly - Marprelate controversy - 1844 - 60 pages
...beasts." The Cucking-stool, or Ducking-stool, for it had these and other names, was an engine invented for the punishment of scolds and unquiet women, by...the end of a long pole, by which they were immerged. See BRAND'S Popular Antiq. by Ellis. P. 35, last line. mvbble fubbles.'] A cant term for any causeless... | |
 | Double V (pseud.) - 1844 - 60 pages
...beasts." The Cucking-stool, or Ducking-stool, for it had these and other names, was an engine invented for the punishment of scolds and unquiet women, by...the end of a long pole, by which they were immerged. See BRAND'S Popular Antiq. by Ellis. P. 35, last line. mubble fubbles."] A cant term for any causeless... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...them in the water. The scolds were compelled to seat themselves in this stool, or chair, which was fixed at the end of a long pole, by which they were immersed in some muddy or stinking pond. Mr. Lysons, in his "Environs of London," gives a curious extract... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...least by no means to procure them subsistence. CUCKING-STOOL. THE cucking-stool was an engine invented for the punishment of scolds and unquiet women, by...stinking pond. Blount tells us that some think it a corruption from ducking-stool,1 but that others derive it from choking-stool.2 Though of the most... | |
 | Thomas Gill - Easingwold (England) - 1852 - 516 pages
...misdemeanors. Its chief victims, at least in latter times, were scolds and unquiet women, who were placed in a stool or chair fixed at the end of a long pole, and thence let down into the water. Blount says, " it was in use even in our Saxon fathers' time, by... | |
 | William Keddie - Literature - 1854 - 400 pages
...for beasts." In early times it was called the cucking-stool. Brand describes it as an engine invented for the punishment of scolds and unquiet women, by...were immerged in some muddy or stinking pond. Blount thought this last name a corruption of ducking-stool ; and another antiquary guessed that choking -stool... | |
 | John Brand - 1855 - 520 pages
...least by no means to procure them subsistence. CUCKING-STOOL. THE cucking-stool was an engine invented for the punishment of scolds and unquiet women, by...stinking pond. Blount tells us that some think it a corruption from ducking-stool, 1 but that others derive it from choking-stool. 2 Though of the most... | |
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But comp. Stool of Repentance, infra. The cucking-stool was an engine invented for the punishment of scolds and unquiet women, by ducking them in the water, after having placed them in a stool or chair fixed at the end of a long pole, by which they were... 
