1 definition found From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]: DUCKING-STOOL, punishment. An instrument used, in dipping women in the water, as a punishment, on conviction of being common scolds. It is sometimes confounded with tumbrel. (q.v.) 2. This barbarous punishment was never in use in Pennsylvania. 12 Serg. & Rawle, 220.
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