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What (who) is ducking$511246$ - definition
1957 FILM BY ROBERT MCKIMSON
Ducking the devil
cucking-stool
![Pearson Scott Foresman]] text book](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ducking-Stool 1 (PSF).png?width=200 "Pearson Scott Foresman]] text book")
.jpg?width=200 "Ducking or cucking stool, a historical punishment for the common scold, 1896")
CHAIR OR COMMODE WHERE OFFENDERS ARE STRAPPED AS A FORM OF PUNISHMENT
Cucking stool; Cucking-stool; Ducking-stool; Ducking Stool; Witch dunking; Ordeal by immersion; Christchurch ducking stool; Witch ducking; Dunking stool; Ducking and Cucking Stools
n.
Castigatory, trebuchet, tumbrel, ducking-stool.
Cucking stool
CHAIR OR COMMODE WHERE OFFENDERS ARE STRAPPED AS A FORM OF PUNISHMENT
Cucking stool; Cucking-stool; Ducking-stool; Ducking Stool; Witch dunking; Ordeal by immersion; Christchurch ducking stool; Witch ducking; Dunking stool; Ducking and Cucking Stools
·- A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked;
- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool.
Cucking stool
CHAIR OR COMMODE WHERE OFFENDERS ARE STRAPPED AS A FORM OF PUNISHMENT
Cucking stool; Cucking-stool; Ducking-stool; Ducking Stool; Witch dunking; Ordeal by immersion; Christchurch ducking stool; Witch ducking; Dunking stool; Ducking and Cucking Stools
Cucking stools or ducking stools were chairs formerly used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds, and dishonest tradesmen in England, Scotland, and elsewhere.Oxford English Dictionary includes dishonest tradesmen as well as disorderly women and scolds as people for whom the cucking-stool was used and cites its use in Vienna and that "The punishment of the ducking stool cannot be inflicted in Pennsylvania.
Wikipedia
Ducking the Devil
Ducking The Devil is a 1957 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Robert McKimson. The short was released on August 17, 1957, and stars Daffy Duck and the Tasmanian Devil.
