ducking stool

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   an instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water

   Synonymscucking stool

   Broaderinstrument of punishment

Questions about ducking stool

What does ducking stool mean?

ducking stool means "an instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water".

What is another word for ducking stool?

Close synonyms include cucking stool. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ducking stool a common word?

ducking stool is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.