ducking-stool

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• Ducking

  ·- ·noun & ·adj, from Duck, ·vt & i. II. Ducking ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Duck>>. ...

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• ducking

  A penalty which veteran sailors inflict on those who, for the first time, pass the tropics, the equa...

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• Stool

  ·noun A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. II. Stool ·noun A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. III. ...

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• stool

  The gallows, formerly consisting of three posts, over which were laid three transverse beams. This c...

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• stool

  A minor channel abaft the main channels, for the dead-eyes of the backstays. (See backstay-stools.) ...

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• dry ducking

  Suspending a person by a rope a few yards above the surface of the water. ...

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• Bishop-stool

  ·noun A bishop's seat or see. ...

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• Close-stool

  ·noun A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the f...

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• Cucking stool

  ·- A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening th...

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• stool-pigeoning

  One of the old standing and oft-repeated charges urged with great pertinacity against the police of ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cucking-stool

  , ducking-stool a stool placed over a river in which scolding women are seated and ducked. North. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• picksey stool

  a mushroom. Devonsh. ...

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• ducking at the yard-arm

  A marine punishment unknown, except by name, in the British navy; but formerly inflicted by the Fren...

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