Ducking-stool

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DUCKING-STOOL, punishment. An instrument used, in dipping women in the water, as a punishment, on conviction of being common scolds. It is sometimes confounded with tumbrel. (q.v.)
2. This barbarous punishment was never in use in Pennsylvania. 12 Serg. & Rawle, 220.

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