DUCKING STOOL

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: General Information · 1909 · p. 6

a dovelopment of the —— soot, a chair iar —— the purpose a pillory, while uckingthair was fastened to the end of a beam, and by a see-saw arrangement could be dipped into the water and out again. This ee forscolding wives was actually use till a hundred years ago. DUDLEY, [s. 127]