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Ducking stool

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  1. 1
    A chair used to punish women, especially scolds, by ducking them in water. historical

    "Near the pond was the ducking-stool where many a village scold had her tongue temporarily stilled."

  2. 2
    an instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water wordnet

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