† cuck-stool Obs.
Forms: 4–5 cok-, kuk-, 5 cuc-, 5–6 cuk-, coke-, 5–7 cuck-, cook(e-, 6–7 cock-, and stule, stole, stool(e, etc.; also 5 cuxtole.
[See cucking-stool.]
1. = cucking-stool.
| 1200–15 in Whittaker Hist. Richmondshire II. 422 Faciet meliorem finem quem poterit, vel ibit ad Cuckestolam. c 1320 Poem on Times Edw. II (Percy Soc.) lxxii, The pelery and the cok-stol. c 1400 Burgh Laws lxiii. in Sc. Stat. I. 345 Gif scho makis evil ale..scho sall gif.. viiis. or..be put on þe kukstule. 1423 Leet Bk. Coventry (in Promp. Parv. 107) Cokestowle made apon Chelsmore grene to punysche skolders and chidders, as y⊇ law will. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 106/2 Cukstole, for flyterys, or schyderys [v.r. cukstolle, cucstool]. 1576 in E. Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss., Euery woman that is a scould shall..be sett vpon the cockstoll and be thrise ducked in the water. a 1625 Fletcher Woman's Prize iii. i, We'll ship 'em out in cuck-stools; there they'll sail..till they discover The happy islands of obedience. 1659 in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 229. That a new Cooke Stoole bee made. 1768–9 in Kelly Anc. Rec. Leicester 48 Paid Mr. Elliott for a Cuckstool, by order of Hall {pstlg}2. [1884 Holland Cheshire Gloss., A street in Macclesfield is called Cuckstool Pit Hill.] |
¶ 2. Erroneously taken for the pillory.
| 1722–30 Ramsay Fables, Twa Cut-purses, The tane..clam the high cookstool, And put his head and baith his hands Through holes where the ill-doer stands. |