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	the cucking stool: Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark!
		The Cucking Stool, which was an old English and colonial American "engine of correction," was used as a dunking punishment for a communis rixatrix or common scold.
		People have written to Spot to say that a cucking stool was something else, designed to expose the posterior of the communis rixatrix, but the legal commentator Blackstone supports Spot's usage.
		The Cucking Stool is especially incensed at Katherine Kersten's anti-Muslim tirades.
	thecuckingstool.blogspot.com /2007/04/bark-bark-bark-bark-bark.html (529 words)

	Common scold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The prescribed penalty for this offence involved dunking the convicted offender in water in an instrument called the "cucking stool".
		The cucking stool, according to Blackstone, eventually became known as a ducking stool by folk etymology.
		That stool the dread of ev'ry scolding quean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_scold (922 words)

	Ducking stool, stool chair, bar stool racer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The "dunking stool", also known as a "ducking stool" or "diving chair", was usedto identify witches and also serve as punishment for minor offenders,.
		Ducking Stool There were no police as such so the local burghers and lesser gentrymanaged to keep the peace using punishments such as whipping through the.
		The ducking stool was punishment reserved almost exclusively for women who hadbeen found guilty of public drunkenness fighting or otherwise disturbing the.
	www.sum-insured.com /stool/ducking_stool.html (903 words)

	Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant: Against the Stool
		Here, an eat-in customer would sit down, his legs tucked under the stool to maintain a precarious balance, eating overpriced food that was far from scintillating.
		This place had resorted to the stool because it was the most ignoble of furniture.
		But without it, the highly inebriated customer is ensured a perilous flop backwards or the free flow of his head against the bar, thus ensuring a definitive position and granting a definitive signal to a bartender that it's probably time to call a cab.
	www.edrants.com /reluctant/001954.html (668 words)

	Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant: The Case Against the Stool
		The idiots who owned and operated the joint had provided about four stools for customers (such as me) to eat their overpriced and not really all that scintillating food.
		But without it, the highly inebriated customer is ensured a backless flop backwards or the free flow of the head onto the bar, thus ensuring a definitive position and justification for a bartender to call a cab.
		If a stool is placed in the center of a room or somewhere without any back support (such as a wall), then the spine remains exposed and the body is forced to adapt to a position that is contrary to the idea of sitting (a relaxing position), which often involves kicking up one's feet
	www.edrants.com /reluctant/001952.html (574 words)

	Amendment VIII: James v. Commonwealth
		The punishment of the ducking, or cucking stool, is from the cuckoo, "qui odiose jurgat et rixatur," as Lord
		It has been already stated, that the ducking stool, cucking stool, or choaking stool, (quocunque nomine gaudet,) and the pillory, the collisstrigium, or neck stretch, are punishments, ejusdem generis, of the same family, of the dung cart race--and were intended, magis ad ludibrium, quam in poenam.
		In coming to the conclusion, that the ducking stool is not the punishment of scolds, I do not take into consideration the humane provisions of the constitutions of the United States and of this state, as to cruel and unusual punishments, further than they show the sense of the whole community.
	press-pubs.uchicago.edu /founders/documents/amendVIIIs19.html (3516 words)

	Milltown Memories: The Tale of Todmorden's Oldest Inhabitant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Many claimed that ducking and cucking stools were one and the same thing, pointing to references from all over the country of people being placed in the cucking stool and ducked in water.
		According to an account originating in Leicester in 1467 the cucking stool was a chair in which the culprit was fastened and then suspended aloft by means of a pulley.
		This machine was sometimes placed in front of the culprit’s door and other times mounted on wheels and trundled through the streets, where he or she was exposed to the derision of the townsfolk.
	www.milltownmemories.org.uk /mm2/8.html (283 words)

	Glossary - ExWitch Australia (formerly 'Born Again Pagan Ministries')
		The probable origin of the Ducking Stool, the term Cucking Stool derives from the word cuckold and it was so-named because, during the thirteenth Century, it provided a draconian form of punishment for social deviants in a village community who were accused by their neighbours of adultery.
		The victim was tied to the stool and subjected to immersion in the village pond.
		The cucking stool was, however, never used to punish witches.
	www.exwitchaustralia.com /Glossary/CUCKING_STOOL.html (320 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		For which offence she may be indicted; and, if convicted, shall be sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket, castigatory, or cucking stool, which in the
		Saxon language signifies the scolding stool; though now it is frequently corrupted into ducking stool, because the residue of the judgement is, that, when she is so placed therein, she shall be plunged in the water for her punishment.
		The cucking stool, according to Blackstone, eventually became known as a ducking stool by
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Common_scold.html (937 words)

	cucking stool definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		cucking stool definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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		medieval punishment: a punishment used in medieval times in which somebody was tied to a stool and pelted with rotting food
	ca.encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861601811/cucking_stool.html (90 words)

	Description of stool. Intresting information about stool. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Certainly the use of stool stool patterns with swivel and discount frequently.
		Culture is stool upholstered in solid wood spindled.
		Children from a stool culture is stool, discount frequently updated.
	stool.xyi4tovamskaju.com /index.html (441 words)

	The Ducking Stool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The ducking stool seems to have been placed on the lowest and most contempt-bearing stage among English instruments of punishment.
		The Cambridge stool was carved with devils laying hold of scolds.
		In 1633 it was ordered that a ducking- stool be built in every county in Maryland, but I have no proof that they were ever built or used, though it is probable they were.
	www.getchwood.com /punishments/curious/chapter-2.html (2070 words)

	Definition of cucking stool - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?va=cucking (63 words)

	DUCKING - Online Information article about DUCKING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The two have been generally confused, but are quite distinct.
		Stool of Repentance, is of very See also:
		Saxons, who called it the Scealding or Scolding Stool.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DRO_ECG/DUCKING.html (665 words)

	ø Ducking Stool ø (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The ducking stool game Woodcut of ducking stool taken from G.F.Townsend 'The Town and Borough of Leominster' (1863) The ducking stool was a punishment which most often befell women prisoners.
		The ducking stool or diving chair was a punishment which most often befell women prisoners.
		The Legal Term * Ducking Stool * Defined & Explained Ducking Stool * DUCKING STOOL An instrument used in dipping women in the water as a punishment A seventeenth century English ducking stool in the Colonial Williamsburg collections would be swung out at the end of beams over a river office or pond.
	www.go-blog-go.com /ducking-stool.htm (313 words)

	February 1st
		According to verbal tradition, the punishment of the ducking-stool was inflicted at Kingston and other places up to the beginning of the present century.
		However, the 'stool' was but rarely used at this period; though it was very extensively employed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
		The term Cucking-stool is sometimes used inter-changeably for ducking-stool, the resemblance of the names having apparently led to an idea that they meant the same thing.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/feb/1.htm (3904 words)

	takeourword.com Blog » Blog Archive » Thewed
		The entry for the number two meaning of thew, above, says that the thew was often equated with the cucking stool.
		cucking stool - chair in which the offender (a scold, a disorderly woman, etc.) was “fastened and exposed to the jeers of bystanders or conveyed to a pond or river and ducked” (Americans would probably say dunked) (definition from the OED).
		Cucking stool comes from cuck, a verb meaning “to void excrement”; the OED’s example quotations range in date from 1440-1605.
	takeourword.com /blog1/?p=72 (540 words)

	Cucking-stool — FactMonster.com
		(The) or Choking-stool, for ducking scolds, is not connected with choke (to stifle), but the French choquer; hence the archaic verb cuck (to throw), and one still in use, chuck (chuck-farthing).
		The cucking-stool is the stool which is chucked or thrown into the water.
		Now, if one cucking-stool was for each scold, Some towns, I fear, would not their numbers hold.
	www.factmonster.com /dictionary/brewers/cucking-stool.html (141 words)

	Ducking Stool - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ducking Stool - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ducking Stool, mechanism used in England and America, from its invention in the 17th century into the early 19th century, for the punishment of...
		- old device for punishment: formerly, in Europe and New England, a chair or stool in which an offender was tied and then immersed in water as a punishment
	encarta.msn.com /Ducking_Stool.html (128 words)

	American Hot Sausage: AHS: Cucking Stool and liberals tolerant of everyone but inner-city Christian mothers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Cucking goes all out to ridicule these inner city parents, much like the arrogant liberals at the school district brushed them off (in a way that would never be acceptable for middle-class white parents):
		AHS can guarantee you that were Bounds a Prius driving mom calling from her cellphone while shopping at Lund's, the story would have went down a little differently.
		Maybe Cucking should consider that before painting her as the nouveau wretched fl bigot.
	rahelio.typepad.com /ahs/2006/10/ahs_cucking_sto.html (1857 words)

	minvolved.com » SD 41 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Below the fold is a follow up on last week’s SD41 Town Hall meeting post by Spot.
		This one is also from the dog behind The Cucking Stool.
		For the past year or so, Spotty has been holding down the fort at the Cucking Stool and Retire Geoff Michel.
	minvolved.com /?cat=9 (291 words)

	American Hot Sausage: AHS: Once again, Cucking Stool and liberals hate on God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		« AHS: Cucking Stool and liberals tolerant of everyone but inner-city Christian mothers
		Cucking Stool has supplemented its liberal logic from their previous post and it comes down to this: All Families Matter, except for those of heterosexual fl Christians.
		She believes in God, which in Cucking Stool country means that she is a "quack." And they wonder why America believes liberals are bankrupt and have no values in common with the majority of Americans.
	rahelio.typepad.com /ahs/2006/10/ahs_once_again_.html (1528 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Book of Days \| April 27 \| Ducking and cucking stool stools phenology ...
		Ducking and cucking stool stools phenology Situationist International Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall
		However, the ‘stool’ was but rarely used at this period; though it was extensively employed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
		The Australian idiom ‘cack’ derives from the same word.) The Cambridge stool was carved with devil
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/apr27.html (3247 words)

	SWC Library - Year of Wonders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Related links about the book Year of Wonders
		Research one or more of these forms of punishment: stocks, cucking stool(both described on p.
		What would be a fair punishment for Josiah Bont (Anna's father)for his theftand for burying Christopher alive?
	www.swc.cc.ca.us /~library/Lvl3/index.asp?L3=14 (2013 words)

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