This is similar to the use of a ducking stool.

What about trial by fire or bringing back the ducking stool.

The car park opposite the church was once common land complete with pond and ducking stool.

The ducking stool was not always tied down to one spot next to a river or pond.

The Anecdotes also suggest that the ducking stool stopped being used because it did not work well.

Bring back the ducking stool while we still have carers to hold the towels!

However, there are currently plans to construct a replica ducking stool at the site.

The town clock, commissioned for the Millennium, features a moving ducking stool depiction.

I think that Ducking Stool is just around the corner...

A ducking stool was mentioned in 1584.

But an illustration of a medieval ducking stool suggested that it was tailor-made for the purpose.

Objects in the collection include a ducking stool dating from 1686, geological items, stocks, and a whipping post.

You be careful what you say about whippings and the ducking stool.'

You come sit in this ducking stool."

The ducking stools were first used for this purpose but ducking was later inflicted without the chair.

The recall campaign that is - finally - coming to a conclusion has further demeaned the governor's office into something resembling a civic ducking stool.

I'm surprised the Tory/Libs aren't using the ducking stool method.

Or was it the ducking stool?"

The cucking stool, according to Blackstone, later was called a ducking stool.

The ducking stool?

American colonies judicially punished in a variety of forms, including whipping, stocks, the pillory and the ducking stool.

A more common punishment is the cucking stool, wrongly known as the ducking stool.

The more general means of quietening a 'contentious woman' was the tri-bucket, or ducking stool.

They say that the cucking stool and the ducking stool are really two different types of punishment devices.

The ducking stool was taken to the U.S. when British people went to live there during colonial times.

This was done using a piece of furniture called a "cucking stool".

It observes the continued use of cucking stools in 1746.

The cucking stool, according to Blackstone, later was called a ducking stool.

A more common punishment is the cucking stool, wrongly known as the ducking stool.

They say that the cucking stool and the ducking stool are really two different types of punishment devices.

The cucking stool, according to Blackstone, eventually became known as a ducking stool by folk etymology.

The Domesday Book mentions the use of a cucking stool in the town of Chester.

The prescribed penalty for this offence involved dunking the convicted offender in water in an instrument called the "cucking stool".

Cucking stool (ducking stool)

Punishments included the imposition of the cucking stool, pillory, jougs, a shrew's fiddle, or a scold's bridle.

It commonly referred to an informal local sorority or social group, who could enforce socially-acceptable behaviour through private censure or through public rituals, such as "rough music", the cucking stool and the skimmington ride.

The Domesday Book notes the use of a cucking stool at Chester, a seat also known as cathedra stercoris, a "dung chair", whose punishment apparently involved exposing the sitter's buttocks to onlookers.

'Fye Bridge' is arguably the oldest river crossing in Norwich and is the gate to the North of the City known as "Norwich over the water" this bridge was also the site of a cucking stool for ducking lawbreakers and undesirables.