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cuck-stool
† 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 13...
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cucking-stool
cucking-stool Obs. exc. Hist. (ˈkʌkɪŋ-stuːl) Forms: 4 coking-, 4– cucking-, 6 cukkyng-, cuckyng-, cooking-; also (by association with cuckquean) 6 coqueen-, 7 cockqueane-stool. [app. f. cuck v.1 + stool; cf. cuck-stool. Called in the Chester Domesday (I. 262 b) cathedra stercoris (Way, Promp. Parv.)...
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ducking-stool
ˈducking-stool A sort of chair at the end of an oscillating plank, in which disorderly women, scolds, or dishonest tradesmen, were tied and ducked or plunged in water, as a punishment. See cucking-stool. So ducking tumbrel, a ducking-stool provided with wheels.1597 Ipswich Chamberlain's Bk. in Clark...
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trebuchet
trebuchet (ˈtrɛbəʃɛt, ‖ trebyʃɛ) Forms: α. 4 trepejette, trepget, 4–5 -eget, 5 trepgett(e, trip-, trypgette, 6 trepegett, -gete, trepa-; β. 4–5 tri-, tre-, treybochet; 5 trebget (erron. -got); 6 trabu-, 7 trebuschet, (8–9 trebucket), 8– trebuchet. [In I, a. OF. trebuchet, also trebuket, -busket, tra...
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