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has gloss	(noun) an instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water cucking stool, ducking stool
has gloss	eng: Ducking-stools and cucking-stools are chairs formerly used for punishment. They were both instruments of social humiliation and censure, primarily for the offense of scolding or back biting, and less often for sexual offences like having an illegitimate child or prostitution. They were technical devices which formed part of the wider method of law enforcement through social humiliation. A common alternative was a court order to recite one’s crimes or sins after Mass or in the market place on market day, or informal action such as a Skimmington ride.
lexicalization	eng: cucking stool
lexicalization	eng: Cucking-stool
lexicalization	eng: Ducking stool
lexicalization	eng: Ducking-stool
subclass of	(noun) an instrument designed and used to punish a condemned person instrument of punishment

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