cucking stool
ducking stool

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.