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Noun: ducking stool
  1. An instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water
    "The museum displayed a replica of a ducking stool used in medieval times";
    - cucking stool [archaic]

Derived forms: ducking stools

Type of: instrument of punishment

Encyclopedia: Ducking stool