Ducking Stool

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Used as a form of humiliating punishment for angry women, a ducking stool was “a stool or chair in which common scolds were formerly tied and plunged into water.” -Whitney, 1911

Source

William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)

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