cucking stool

Two years later, a new cucking-stool was made at the expense of the parish.

Scold′er; Scold′ing, railing: a rating; Scold′ing-stool, a cucking-stool.

The cucking-stool in the early history of England must not be confounded with the ducking-stool.

Chief among them was the Ducking or Cucking-stool, a scourge for scolds, and once as common in every parish as the stocks.

Two pounds were paid for a cucking-stool at Leicester in 1768.