cutty-stool Sc.
[cutty a.]
1. A low stool.
| 1820 Scott Monast. iv, Hitching her seat of honour..a little nearer to the cuttie-stool on which Tibb was seated. 1832–53 Whistle-binkie (Sc. Songs) Ser. iii. 120, I grieve to see ye sit Sae laigh upon your cutty stool In sic a dorty fit! |
2. Formerly, in Scotland, a particular seat in a church, where offenders against chastity, or other delinquents, had to sit during the time of divine service and receive a public rebuke from the minister; the stool of repentance. Also fig.
| a 1774 Fergusson Farmer's Ingle Poems (1845) 37 Marion for a bastard son Upon the cutty stool was forced to ride. 1791 T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 251 In most of the kirks there is a small gallery..painted black, placed in an elevated situation, near the roof of the church, which they call the cutty-stool, and on which offenders against chastity are forced to sit. 1818 Keats Life & Lett. I. 170 If he does I must sit on the cutty-stool all next winter. 1871 C. Gibbon Lack of Gold viii, To sit in penance on the cutty-stool. |