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There have been several posts over the last few years here at the Cucking Stool about the Nuremberg Defense: I am not guilty of war crimes because I was following the orders of my superiors.
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The cucking stool was a was an old English "engine of correction" and public entertainment device. It was used to dunk a common scold, or communis rixatrix in water as punishment. A common scold was a harridan who upset the public order and quiet with her nagging.
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Cucking stool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Common scold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on cucking and ducking stools (punishment), a method of punishment by means of humiliation, beating, or death. ... The cucking stool (also known as a “scolding stool” or a “stool of repentance”) was in most cases a commode or toilet, placed in public view, upon which the...
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A 'cucking-stool', like its later variation the 'ducking-stool', was a method of female punishment. ... The cucking-stool was rather different, as you may judge from a genteel comment by Robert Chambers in his Book of Days in 1863: “The cucking-stool was a seat of a kind which delicacy forbids us particularly to describe...
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Definition of cucking stool from Webster's New World College Dictionary. Meaning of cucking stool. Pronunciation of cucking stool. Definition of the word cucking stool. Origin of the word cucking stool. ... "cucking stool." Webster's New World College Dictionary. 2009...
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[The cucking stool] ... was a seat of even flagitious indelicacy upon which offending females were exposed at their own doors or in some public place as a means of putting upon them the last degree of ignominy. ... The cucking-stool, in fact, was analogous to the Sedes Stercoraria in which a new Pope was formerly placed...
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cucking stool n. An instrument of punishment no longer in use, consisting of a chair in which the offender was tied and exposed to public derision ... WordNet: cucking stool...
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Definition of cucking stool from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games.
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